American Government CLEP

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My 15yr old son and I I passed a week ago with a 59 and 78 respectively. We took USH 1 (69 & 74) and USH2 (60 & 74) before AmGov, which I think helped. For example, the Glass-Steagall Act was covered in USH2 and we didn’t study it for AmGov, but it was also on my Gov test. All the parties were covered well in both histories, and powers of each branch. Lots of overlap!

Below is the syllabus I put together for all of these. I think this link should work - if not, I can update when I get home. I’m also updating the Gov study document that’s in the paid forums, but I’m not done yet. Maybe this week or next week. Almost everything was on that doc (plus some).

We had very different combos of questions (obviously a huge test bank of q’s), but we both agreed our exams covered content from the notes in the forum, plus what we added. He said he had about 10 questions about Sovereign Immunity, lots of questions about all the congressional committees, elections, lots on polling, PACs/SuperPacs. He only had 2 questions with Amendments (both re: Bill of Rights) and quite a few about the Articles. Only 2-3 court cases were mentioned. Some questions about federalism/cooperative federalism. And a bunch of charts, esp to do with polling and elections.

The version I had of this test on Friday had a LOT of Amendment questions, Articles 1-4 & 6, and more court cases. A little about elections, a question about the difference between PAC and SuperPac. And about the Council of Economic Advisors (who they advise). Most of the questions I had, had a clear cut answer, if you at least knew what a case or amendment had to do with. Maybe a dozen questions had really close answers where you had to think hard.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...I/htmlview

We also used REA practice tests and InstantCert. They were a huge help in filling any little details that might not have been covered in the syllabi. And we used Learning Express practice tests that were free through our library. Those had tons of questions on polling, distributions, etc. I was glad we took them, but I felt that info was disproportionately represented in their practice tests imho - which scared us a little.

I hope this helps!


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