Posted by SpeedyPrep on August 26th, 2011 Posted under:

This might seem like an obvious tip but many students let their studies slack off if they feel they are ready. This is very natural since we tend to take a break after we feel like we’ve accomplished something. Whenever I studied for my tests I would study until I felt like I had mastered all of the subject material and then I would schedule the test. I didn’t have access to SpeedyPrep for my CLEPs, and looking back I wish I had.

Every now and then I would call in to the testing center and they wouldn’t have any testing availabilities for a week or two so I would just schedule my test for the soonest time slot available and wait in anticipation. The problem was that, in some cases, I would stop studying. Since I knew I had mastered the material I would stop studying and take a two week break before the test. Well this wasn’t always the smartest thing to do.

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Posted by SpeedyPrep on August 9th, 2011 Posted under:

A lot of students want to know the difference between CLEP and AP tests. They are both rather popular, but which one is better? They are both offered by the CollegeBoard and both could be described as credit-by-exam. If you pass either test you are granted college credit as if you passed the actual college class. So why take one over the other?

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Posted by SpeedyPrep on August 8th, 2011 Posted under:

SpeedyPrep has been in the online clep study guides market for years. When we were founded in 2007 there were only a handful of other companies, now it seems like every month there is a new site that offers clep study guides. It’s interesting to watch, there are both good and bad things that come with this infiltration of websites.

As with every industry competition is a good thing. We expect other websites to launch into this market but though competition breeds excellence it can also result in a multitude of low-quality study guides which over promise and under deliver.

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