Any study advice for Technical Writing?

[BlackhawkGuy]

This may be too late, so if you've already taken the test, then just ignore me, but I'll respond anyways.

I guess I'm one of the more rare individuals who have actually taken the Technical Writing DSST. It was the first DSST that I ever took. All I could find to study was the "Official DSST Study Guide" for Technical Writing. Let me tell you what a bunch of garbage that book is. About 2% of that book related to the actual exam, but maybe that was just my personal experience, and not those of other people. But hey, I passed with a 56; the passing score is a 46.

I walked out of the Education Center almost certain I completely dive bombed it. But a few weeks later I found out I passed and I was nothing short of ecstatic.

So, it's not too bad if you're good at English, a lot of it involved "what word best combines these two sentences?", and they ask you about various technical documents and editors and composition and blah blah blah.

And by the way, if your college will let you get away with taking it w/o Essay do it. My school required I take the essay and I had to write 300 words (I managed 393) on the physical characteristics and mechanics of a #2 pencil. Yes you read that right, a frickin' pencil! *Nightmares*