American Literature (College Level Exam. Ser. : Clep-3)

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Summary: too much obscure, needless information
Review: I just took the clep test for engl. lit and Amer. lit. It was much easier than I expected, and I vastly overstudied, due in part to being psyched out by these study guides. I thought I needed to know every silly little obscure thing they covered . To prepare for these tests, I'd recommend instead that you buy the Barron's easy key (about 6 bucks), then look over the list of books covered by either Cliff notes or Barron's book notes ( Barron's is better written) and make a list of the titles they list. Now, armed with that list of commonly assigned books, go to your library and look at the "Magill" masterplots, for an excellent 2-3 page synopsis and critque of these titles. You will save alot of time and money this way -- Zero in on the pertinent stuff and don't get thrown by Rudman's --