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Oct 27
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So, you want to try to earn CLEP credit for your American Literature requirement by taking the American Literature CLEP exam. Here’s what the CLEP tests encompasses.
The American Literature CLEP test is made up of 100 multiple choice questions that covering a broad array of topics about American Literature. You have ninety minutes to answer all 100 questions and you’ll be given your unofficial score when you’re finished.
- Understanding the critical theories of American writers, literary terms, and verse forms (5% of the CLEP exam)
- The historical and social settings of specific works and authors and the relationships between literary works and traditions (10-15% of the CLEP exam)
- Interpreting short poems or excerpts from long poems and prose works (25-40% of the CLEP exam)
- The characters, plots, settings, and themes of particular literary works (46-60% of the CLEP exam)
By era, the American Literature CLEP test is divided like this:
- The colonial period, 1620-1830 (10-15% of the exam)
- The Romantic period, 1830-1870 (25%)
- The period of naturalism and realism 1870-1910 (25%)
- The modernist period, 1910-1945 (25%)
- The contemporary period, 1945 to the present (10-15%)
The American Literature CLEP test also has an optional essay section that is only required by certain colleges and universities. If you’re required to take the essay section, it will be graded by the individual institution that requests its completion.
Make sure you answer all the multiple choice questions, even if you’re not sure if an answer is correct. Blank answers are graded the same as wrong answers, so you may as well take a shot.
Your score will be a number between 20 and 80 and if you have at least a 50, you’ll pass the CLEP exams for American Literature and earn CLEP credit for it. This will satisfy the American Literature requirement and will get you out of taking the class.