Can't figure out the CLEP scoring! Argh!

[bkbarden]

Does anyone know WHY this happened, or how the scores work?

This is something I don't always understand either. For example, while in the midst of taking Intro to the Modern Middle East exam, I was thoroughly convinced I was going to fail. I got a 68! Then when I took Business Law, which I felt I knew very well, I was somewhere in the 50s.

I think both the previous posters have good points. You seem to know more than the average person on literature. (I don't even know who Melville is... and I enjoy literature!) So it's not surprising you would do very well.

Also, I have found that there are some topics that I am just instinctively better at. Like the Modern Middle East test... my strength is history, so I am able to reason out the correct answer better than other topics. I sometimes think that my subconscious knows the answer better than I do.

Anyway, I don't know if it really makes sense, but sometimes 'guessing' in a subject you're already strong in can be just as good as knowing information inside and out.

EDIT: I like my new knight champion status.