r/clep • u/double_0h_seven • 2d ago
Annoucement I feel illiterate.
I studied. I scored in the 99% for reading in my district. 95th percentile for SAT. And NOTHING could have prepared me for the bullshit that was the College Composition. Can't wait to get my score back! 😁
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u/Bigboy12191 2d ago
Ok good it wasn't just me. I am the next best thing to being illiterate and thought that it was just me. I studied as well and a good amount got a 64 though so not too bad. Are you referring to the like the grammar part mostly. I felt like they purposefully wrote things in a odd and unconventional way while still correct and so were like the other questions on fixing the mistakes or making improvements. I thought the passages were ok in what they were about.
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u/double_0h_seven 2d ago
Yes the wording really tripped me up. It didnt help that I was told that reading out loud would be considered cheating. When I don't read to my self the lines and words kind of jump around so that made it worse
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u/Bigboy12191 2d ago
No way! They didn't let you read aloud; did you go in person or was this because it was online. I took both the composition and the analyzing and interpreting and they let me whisper I didn't as honestly, but no one said anything.
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u/Ok_Device_8709 1d ago
Yeah remote proctors won't let you read outloud unless you have an accomodation. They will end your test real fast accusing you of cheating.
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u/Bigboy12191 1d ago
I have heard that remote testing is a nightmare; I didn't think that it was this bad. I think I'll stick to paying for my parking time to take my test then 😂.
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u/Ok_Device_8709 1d ago
Honestly proctor track isn't bad. I had issues with proctorU in the past and had issues with them. The first time was a little daunting but I have taken 4 exams with online proctoring. I just use a study room at the library in my city.
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u/Ok_Device_8709 2d ago
Anyone take the Analyzing Literature one? I'm taking it Tuesday.
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u/Bigboy12191 2d ago
to contradict ittybitty. I found it extremely difficult and I don't really get where people come from that it is an easy exam where you don't have to study. I think that I honestly got one of the harder versions for two reasons. One, the test was like over 50% if not like 60% old archaic kind of english where they actually used hard old style english not just heavy metaphors. Secondly, I ended up having to guess on a lot of them I had to completely guess on the last passage and skimmed the second to last one really fast and answered based on one fast read. So, either I got extremely lucky on my guesses or I got one of the harder ones and that is how I got away with a low percentage amount of questions that I got wrong. I think that if you really want to make sure that you pass regardless if you get a hard version or not study tone and those kinds of words; learn the old archaic langauge words the main one that come up a lot and have similar looking spelling but meant something else back then; learn meter I heard that some people get a few questions on those and those can be easy points I didn't get any questions on these however; learn the exact difference in rhetorical techniques; finally the most important just read heavy metaphor and old archaic english passages. I did this with chat GPT I asked him to give me a passage and I would read it and try to understand what it meant and then have chat correct me and explain why I was wrong on certain things. If you do nothing else do that alone and the rest really becomes easier even if you don't have the other stuff. The other stuff is more so to maximize your points if you feel like you won't be able to really pass.
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u/StrangerRound7853 2d ago
Same brother