Any tips for taking college mathematics CLEP exam?

[pcarr]

Looking for any help for preparing for the CLEP exam for Mathematics. And what can I expect the test to be like? You can e-mail me directly at prcarr@mchsi.com if you like.

[LuBee]

I found the Comex book to be a great resource.

[abby]

Originally Posted by pcarr

Looking for any help for preparing for the CLEP exam for Mathematics. And what can I expect the test to be like? You can e-mail me directly at prcarr@mchsi.com if you like.

I used the College Math Comex study guide (amazing!), the Princeton's Cracking the CLEP (very concise and useful), and the Peterson's Clep Success review (harder, but more detailed) to learn. If you search for college math, you'll find some helpful posts that I read also, and one lists some websites with math helps. I went through those three books I mentioned, I looked at some of the websites, like I looked harder into Logic and Truth tables, cause I was sorta lost in that area, so I read on it, took some review questions. That helped. I took the pretest in the Petersons CLEP Success book, and used it to learn from. Alot of the questions I think were harder than the actual test, but I learned loads from reviewing it, and figuring them all out. So take a practice test if you can. I know the Peterson's practice tests (online) are much harder than the real thing. But by the time I went through those resources, I took the Comex guide practice test, and almost fell over, I thought it was too easy. Couldn't be. But sure enough, it wasn't bad at all. I found it fairly easy when I came to the real thing. (I think I prayed pretty hard too cause I was pretty scared.) I would make sure you learn from the practice tests too by reviewing and taking any notes you can.

Here's a list:
Make sure you know probability and functions (easy, complex, and composite) pretty darn well. There are lots of functions and function related questions. Domain/range, truth tables, logic statements, oh and the question, "if the statement...is true, what is its equivalent? or what is equally true?" (the answer is the contrapositive of the original statement.), age problems, distance, DEFINITELY know the formula for permutations and combinations or at least how to do them properly for different circumstances, binary notation, sets and subsets, venn diagram, conjunctions disjunctions and implications, odd x even = even, even x even = even, etc, exponents, radicals, square roots, imaginary numbers, logs, and just basic easy math. If you can go through and say, yes, i know this, yes i know that, then you should be good to go. Practicing these things, review questions, multiple practice tests will all build your ability to do them quickly and correctly. It took me alot of work to get the probability thing down, and the perm. and comb. but once I got it, I was good, and I definitely needed that knowledge.

But you definitely can do it! And really, if you know that stuff, you'll be fine. I was pleasantly surprised.

[ShotoJuku]

Please be sure to use the SEARCH feature, there are SEVERAL posts on the exam.

Skip over mine as you will not learn a thing....

Good Luck!!

[cafilean]

I used a high school level math program for my PC. It was corny, but totally interactive, and I learned everything I needed to score a 76 on this CLEP.