General
I am working on cleaning my room, packing away FF stuff, and dusting off school books. I’ve always done school year round (lighter during the summer, but some school). This is really the first time I remember putting away my books for a few months and not looking at them. I really love pulling them back out now and getting ready to use them! I am planning out my remaining CLEPs before I launch into course work in 2013.
Humanites
The CLEP for August is Humanities. The Humanities CLEP is one of the general five, it is worth 6 college credits, and it will fulfill my humanity requirement for Excelsior. For this test I purchased the REA Humanities Test Guide, and I am using the Princeton Review. For poetry review I am using the Treasure of Poetry for Young People. That is really helpful because it goes through each poet, one at a time. That way you can get used to their style.
I took my first real practice test and scored a 49. Not good, but not bad either for fresh out of the gate. I take all my wrong answers and group them together by kind. That helps me find my weakest spots. My weakest spots were:
- Poetry
- Literature
- Performance Arts (drama, film, etc)
- Music
- Architecture
- Philosophy
- Art
So, I am now tackling those in order of weakness and importance. I hope to schedule my test today for August 31st.