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CLEP General Exams w/ CD-ROM (CLEP Test Preparation)

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I recently took the Humanities CLEP exam. I used the REA CLEP general exams manual to study, review, and practice test exams to prepare for the exam. I found less then 10 questions on the exam, (out of 140) which were even close to the questions and answers in this REA test manual.

Needless to say, I didn't pass the exam. I got close ..score 46, but needed 50. I highly recommend using the CLEP OFFICIAL test manual for your primary test preparation. I am going to call REA and advise them their test manual is not worth using for the Humanities exam. I spent $30 for this manual plus $60 for the exam and $15 for the
Testing center; $105 spent, and nothing to show for it. I hope this helps others

Thx

Jeff Zigeler

THIS BOOK IS GOOD FOR GETTING A GENERAL IDEA OF HOW THE TEST IS ADMINISTERED, AND THE REVIEW QUESTIONS WERE DISCUSSED IN GOOD DETAIL, BUT WHEN I TOOK THE TEST, THERE WAS MAYBE A HANDFUL OF QUESTIONS THAT ACTUALLY PERTAINED TO TO THE REAL TEST. NOT A GOOD BOOK FOR REVIEW, BUT GOOD TO GET AN IDEA AS TO HOW HARD THE TEST IS GOING TO BE.

This book seems to be ok but I won't know for sure until I go for the English Composition Exam. But my real beef has to do with the CD-ROM that came with the book.

The CD is designed to create for the student a feel for what the real test day will feel like. So I started working with the English Composition questions on Practice Exam 1. I studied for actually a couple of weeks before I sat down and took the first practice exam. According to the CD's score, I failed. Then I went back and started studying the questions that I failed. A few days later, after I felt that I had the failed questions studied, I took the test again and failed again. I repeated this over a period of 4 to 5 weeks. Each time I took the practice exam, I either failed or got a score that was so low that I didn't feel that I should take the real test yet. I want to walk in there and ace it so that I don't have to wait the mandatory 6 months before I'm allowed to take it again.

So after weeks of studying I suddenly realized that many of the answers that the practice exam showed me as getting wrong, I had answered correctly all along. I started double checking. I started by taking the English Composition test and using the answer key in the book to record my answers. Guess what?!! The damn book failed its own test! I also discovered that many times I would click on the right answer as being "A" and the practice exam showed as my clicking on a different letter thereby getting the question wrong.

But it gets worse! I soon discovered that there a number of questions that I got wrong that the practice exam on the CD showed me as having gotten right. YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!! Now I've got to go back and basically start from scratch. This means that the combination of this book and the CD-ROM has taught me many, many wrong answers and now I have to UNLEARN. I just do NOT need this kind of confusion and this cannot be the goal of this book.

Folks, the CD-ROM is absolutely WORTHLESS. Get the book, yes, but throw that damn CD straight in the trash before it really messes your mind up. I cannot believe how much time I've wasted with this total peice of trash. This is one of those times when giving my money back is no where near enough compensation for the time just pissed away!! Hell yes I'm mad.

Great resource, the CD was great because it was was identical to the test. If you can pass this this test you will succeed on the CLEP test. The answers are not the same but similar content. The point is that if you pass the sample test you can pass the real test because the actual test covers a broad range which is similar to the that in the CD. The study information is very useful and will help you to get a passing score. So study the book take the test and if you pass you can feel pretty good that you will pass the CLEP.

I studied this book to an obsessive level for 2 and a half months in order to save cash on school. I looked through all of the questions and found answers and explanations on Google. I found maybe 6 questions in the actual CLEP exam that were even similar. I'm extremely pissed that I just wasted 2 and a half months studying this piece of crap book. CD ROM was a complete piece of crap. Half of the answers I got right were marked as wrong. It's like this REA company goes through a couple college books and picks out information and slaps it all together in a book and sells it - which is not suitable for the actual test. Complete waste of time. DO NOT BUY THIS.

I have passed a lot of CLEPs, and REA has helped me. Their practice exams are close in difficulty to the real thing, so you can gauge your readiness by them.

Humanities is a tough exam because it covers many subjects, so you will need other sources for that one. It's never a bad a idea to have a few different sources when you prepare for an exam.

The CD was only helpful as a test-taking practice tool. The scores were inaccurate and therefore gave a false indication of the overall performance. Use the book to review test results as this is the only way you will know how you did.

This is a good supplement to the Official CLEP STUDY GUIDE. Can't remember who I purchased it from but it was wonderfully priced too.