Hello all. I've been lurking for a few weeks and finally decided to spit it out.. what do you think has been the easiest test so far? I've read that some think here's to your health and sociology are somewhat easy (maybe psychology too).

*I'd like to start out taking an easy one to build up my confidence for when I take any hard ones:p

I've looked over previous posts about the Macroeconomics CLEP and I read mixed opinions about it's difficulty.

For those who found it difficult, was it because the content was a surprise, or because it is math oriented, or something else?

For those that did well on the test what did you attribute that to?

Were there questions where you had to read graphs? Did you have to know the abbrevations, like AD, SAS, etc... ?

Right now I am starting off with InstantCert and I plan on looking at some of the other sites that were recommended in this forum. But as I'm reading the IC flashcards I feel like a lot of the material and concepts are new to me and the info keeps popping out of my brain. Has anyone had this feeling with economics and did you eventually grab ahold of the concepts presented in the IC cards?

I know that these are a lot of questions, but I would be grateful for any help.

Whats the difference between the two. I will be taking college algebra. How hard is this CLEP?

I would like to do biology in one month time, is Instant certification and Rea book in Biology good enough?

thank you

Hey everyone, I was studying the IC Intro to Psychology flash cards this week and after studying I decided to take the REA Tests to see how I would do. I didn't do well on them, so I decided to buy the online Test Sample that you can buy for $10. I didn't do great on it either. I am beginning to doubt how I will do on it monday. Does anyone have any suggestions on this exam and how it panned out for yourself. I understand the material when I read it, but when it comes to deciding which of the 5 is best I don't do as well. Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Looking for feedback and tips on Excelsior's Research Methods in Psychology test. Anyone?

Hi,

I am planning to take DSST Exam for the Principles of Statistics in the mid december timeframe and I am wondering if it will be sufficient to pass the exam just by studying the intracert questionaires. Please, advice me if anyone have taken Statistics exam earlier. If I need to focus on studying other books / materials, please do forward the names to me. I am pretty new to these CLEP / DSST's. Also, what are teh total number of questions and the passing score?

Also, In intantcert, the formula for SD is sqrt (sigma (X-mean) / N-1) whereas in other books, it's sqrt (sigma (X-mean) / N ). which one is correct? Please advice.


Thanks much,
Nithya:p

For those that are interested in scoring for ECE exams there is a document called: Excelsior College Exam Tecnhical Handbook 2005. I tried to attached but IC limits prohibited it. It is located under the publications section. I happened upon it by pure chance. It lists all exams and grading criteria.
IE Abnormal Psychology:

Grade- Cut Score- % Form F- % Form G-
A- 62- 14%- 20%-
B- 54- 30%- 35%-
C- 45- 29%- 25%-

Also contains information on the two different exams Forms F and G thought Im sure you probably dont know which one your getting. Additionally, if you look you will see the percentage of A's B's and C's differ depending on the form you get. It also includes additional data such as Mean Item Difficulty, Mean Item-Total Correlation (point-biserial) and internal consistancy data, if those items actually mean anything to anyone. Hope this helps.

"Wow" is pretty much the best way to describe this test. It was not too long, just 160 questions, yet it took me 2 1/2 hours. I can tell you one thing, IC was nowhere near enough. While I do appreciate the effort made to create the guide, it barely covered half of the material that was on my test, if that. Luckily I studied the other materials mentioned on Beckysharp's posts (thanks again!) as well as the Excelsior practice tests; I STILL do not feel confident....at all. I kept a running tally of questions I was 100% sure I knew and came up with an even 50. There were probably about 20 others that I was fairly sure on, 20 that were simply "throw a dart blind guesses", and the rest I could narrow down to two answers. I am not panicking as it's really too late now to worry or wonder. I do know that if I fail I will not attempt a retry; the material is just too expansive and the scenarios are VERY vague. My hat is off to anyone getting a good score on this one. More to come when the score comes in.

Magic, how did you fare? Lee

Hi, All -

I am looking for suggested study materials for the English Lit exam. I did very well on the American Lit, but I am a little intimidated by the English Lit test...any advice you can provide will be appreciated!

Thanks a bunch!
TK