11-06-2009, 09:56 PM
I can understand the frustration. I failed one by two points, thirteen years ago. I haven't had a shortfall since then.
I passed this same test last month. I thought it was pretty tough, but passed. Here's what I did.. I divided my study with one serious pass through an REA guide (that solidly covers about 30% of the questions). Don't invest a lot of time with the questions in the book. HOWEVER, READ THE CONTENT TEXT before the tests and the QUESTION EXPLANATIONS. Make sure you are comfortable with President Jackson, slavery issues and the politics and supreme court cases regarding it... it seems like they give way too much space to questions regarding slavery on this test.
I passed by a very wide margin.
Anything you find difficult... like defining a Tory or you can't remember what Shays Rebellion was about... look it up on wikipedia and read the entire article. Don't make the mistake of data skimming, just read.
After you do the CLEP guide, drill with Instacert, but don't rely solely on flash cards for content. Unless the test question is worded identically, it will will throw you.
If you PM me your address, I will send you my REA CLEP guide for History of the US I (early colonizations) for free. I don't need it anymore.
PM me if you need any advice or encouragement on this test. I'm fairly new here, but I've done a lot of these tests in the Army. I'm also sure that I'm not the only one here that would volunteer to help you.
I would also like to tender the opinion that there is no "real" failure here... there is merely the inability to muster enough points on a given day to get credit. When this happens, we fall back, regroup, and study some more until we make the threshold. I promise you that no one here has dubious morals.
The Instacert money may seem wasted to you. It probably was, if you used it for your knowledge base, instead of simply memory drills.
Ralf1958
I passed this same test last month. I thought it was pretty tough, but passed. Here's what I did.. I divided my study with one serious pass through an REA guide (that solidly covers about 30% of the questions). Don't invest a lot of time with the questions in the book. HOWEVER, READ THE CONTENT TEXT before the tests and the QUESTION EXPLANATIONS. Make sure you are comfortable with President Jackson, slavery issues and the politics and supreme court cases regarding it... it seems like they give way too much space to questions regarding slavery on this test.
I passed by a very wide margin.
Anything you find difficult... like defining a Tory or you can't remember what Shays Rebellion was about... look it up on wikipedia and read the entire article. Don't make the mistake of data skimming, just read.
After you do the CLEP guide, drill with Instacert, but don't rely solely on flash cards for content. Unless the test question is worded identically, it will will throw you.
If you PM me your address, I will send you my REA CLEP guide for History of the US I (early colonizations) for free. I don't need it anymore.
PM me if you need any advice or encouragement on this test. I'm fairly new here, but I've done a lot of these tests in the Army. I'm also sure that I'm not the only one here that would volunteer to help you.
I would also like to tender the opinion that there is no "real" failure here... there is merely the inability to muster enough points on a given day to get credit. When this happens, we fall back, regroup, and study some more until we make the threshold. I promise you that no one here has dubious morals.
The Instacert money may seem wasted to you. It probably was, if you used it for your knowledge base, instead of simply memory drills.
Ralf1958
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