SpeedyPrep is an online subscription site that prepares your student for taking the CLEP test. I received a 6 month subscription for the purpose of this review.
Why use SpeedyPrep?
SpeedyPrep has designed a study site to help you do what the CLEP tests set out to do... pass the tests and essentially the classes! Taking these test is a great way to save money and time working towards your college degree.
What is a CLEP test?
Basically it is tests that show you have a college level of knowledge on a specific topic. Taking (and passing
) these said tests will allow you to gain college credit for classes that you do not have to take. If you can pass the test it is proven that you have a college level understanding for that specific course. 
Where did SpeedyPrep get their information from?
The study information was selected or created by master teachers and college professors. With the desire to help the students, SpeedyPrep is constantly checking their information to make sure that they are up to date with any changes made by the college board! So you know that you are using the most current information.
They say that it takes 21 days of a new routine to get it into your brain so do it with out thinking. Well that really goes with anything, I think. They know that it takes your brain several times of exposure to the same material for it to be stored and retrievable from the brain. Okay this may not be the case for every person. I know a few who only have to hear/see/read something one time and they have it! I think, thought that the majority of us fall into the first category.
Go to SpeedyPrep and create an account to activate your subscription. Once you do that you can start checking out the classes! Pick your class from the list of 24 courses currently offered. Take American Government for example, with this course there are then over 20 sections like Civil Liberties, Political Parties, Political Opinion etc for you to work on. As you work thru the sessions completing each fill in the blank answers, you are timed and your score is kept. The number of questions varies by section. Whether you answer the question incorrectly or not there is an explanation and or a video explaining the topic. This is reinforcing the correct answer if you didn't know it! At the end of the session your time and number correct will be displayed as well as the percent. For each session there is a progress bar that will tell you how far you are to get to 100 percent. One you reach 100 percent in any given course, you are ready to take the CLEP test for that class!
SpeedyPrep incorporated this progress bar to guarantee it's classes. If you have worked thru the Speedy Prep course, received that 100 percent and do not pass the test they will refund your study session!
SpeedyPrep requests that if you are going to take this route that you have had the high school equivalent of the same class. So they don't recommend you taking the Algebra course if you haven't had Algebra in high school.
**The cost of this online subscription study course does not cover the cost of the CLEP test or any other fees included in taking that test.
So what did my son think?
Overall, and after working thru some of the sessions, He thinks that StudyPrep is a great tool! He liked the layout of the questions however felt that some questions could have been multiple choice. That being said, you continue to work thru and see the answers and the next time you remember what the answer was {that is that repetition thing kicking in:)}
My take?
I think that having the option to test out of classes is a great thing! Why sit thru a class when you already know the information. Now you have the chance to study for some of your classes and go ahead and test out of them. By taking this route to college you will save time and money! I don't see how it could be a bad thing!
The only thing that I didn't like was that you needed to answer in the correct "form". So if the answer was 14 and I answered it numerically "14" and the answer was fourteen, it counted it incorrectly. I say that the answer was correct, however it will be scored as and incorrect answer. That didn't happen to us more than a few times and I understand it it is just something that I noticed.
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