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A CLEP Study Guide helps you prepare for your CLEP exam. A CLEP study guide offers you the study material that covers the whole of your CLEP exam syllabus. A CLEP study guide includes sample tests and sample questions that are quite similar in format and standard to the actual CLEP tests or questions. The CLEP study guides are your CLEP test preparation guides. There are several CLEP study guides available for you.

The Official CLEP Study Guide released by the CollegeBoard, the designer of the CLEP tests is a comprehensive CLEP study guide for you. The 18th Edition of CollegeBoard’s CLEP Official Study Guide is the only complete source of information about the CLEP exams. It contains sample questions and answers for all 34 exams, information on getting credit for CLEP, and exam-taking tips.

The CLEP sampler is CLEP study guide that can help you practice taking a CLEP Exam on your computer. It is the CLEP Computer-Based Testing software that helps you learn questions and their instructions. The CLEP sampler is available free for download at the official site of the CollegeBoard— www.collegeboard.com.

The Research & Education Association also publishes CLEP study guides with practice tests. The each of REA’s CLEP study guide has a few chapters of material that is covered during the exam and three practice tests with in-depth explanations. The REA’s CLEP study guides include a CD-ROM with tests in the same format as the actual CLEP tests. The Research & Education Association also offers online CLEP Study Guide— www.rea.com.

There are a number of online CLEP study guides for you. Some of your online CLEP study guides include sparknotes.com, clepinfo.com, freeuniv.com, passyourclass.com, and instantcert.com.

The online CLEP study guide, sparknotes.com offers you study guides on many of the CLEP exam topics. The topics are based on current courses. The online CLEP study guide, clepinfo.com offers you study guides and also helps you to rate and review yourselves. It also offers you tips and information on the exams. The online CLEP study guide, freeuniv.com provides free reference material that can be used to study for CLEP exams. The online CLEP study guide, passyourclass.com offers study guides for most CLEP and DANTES tests and includes a “Pass or Don’t Pay” guarantee. The online CLEP study guide, instantcert.com offers reference material for almost all CLEP and Dantes exams.

With high-end technology and the latest “gotta-have-it” gadgets, life is becoming more complicated by the day.

Consider a typical college student’s list of necessities: computer, printer, USB drive, assorted hardware, flat-screen TV, video game console, MP3 player, digital camera and cell phone. So what happens when one of these items breaks down, your college student is hundreds of miles away, and you don’t know who to call for repairs?

For many parents, an extended service plan is the answer. Anyone who has ever purchased a big-ticket item has been asked the question of whether or not they want to protect their investment with an extended service plan. And for high-tech school supplies, this protection is worth considering.

While products should be able to take their share of bumps and bruises, having a service plan ensures that consumers will get their money’s worth by not having to pay out-of-pocket costs to repair or replace an expensive item should it become damaged or defective. And many parents find that investing in a plan, particularly when the product is high-tech and will be used by a student, saves them time, frustration and cost down the road.

“For parents whose kids are in or heading off to college, service plans offer peace of mind that all of the high-priced ’school supplies’ they just bought are protected,” said Danny Hourigan, president of the Service Plan Division of NEW, a third-party administrator of extended service plans. “And if something goes wrong with their purchase, all it takes is one toll-free phone call and a customer service agent will troubleshoot their problem or arrange to get it repaired or replaced.”

Service plans typically cover 100 percent of the parts and labor costs or full replacement for failed products. In addition, most offer convenient 24-hour toll-free customer assistance, product support and troubleshooting; a nationwide network of repair technicians that provide on-site, carry-in or depot service; coverage against accidental damage from handling; and a no-lemon guarantee.

Research shows that there is a big relationship between reading rate and reading comprehension.

Some people read rapidly and comprehend well; others read slowly and comprehend badly. Thus, there is some reason to believe that the factors producing slow reading are also involved in lowered comprehension.

Good comprehension depends on whether you can extract and retain the important ideas that you’ve read, not on how fast you read them. If you can do this fast, then your reading speed can be increased.

If you pair fast-reading with worrying about comprehension, your reading speed will drop because the mind is occupied with your fears and you are not paying attention to the ideas that you are reading.

But, if you concentrate on the purpose of reading (locating main ideas and finding answers to your questions), your speed and comprehension should increase. Your concern should be not with how fast you can get through a chapter alone, but with how quickly you can comprehend the facts and ideas that you need.
Comprehension

Comprehension during speed reading is easier than during standard reading.

This is because the mind is busy looking for meaning, not rereading words and sentences.

The average reader spends about 1/6th of the time rereading words than actually reading them.

Rereading interrupts the flow of comprehension and slows down the process, that’s why the habit of it should be eliminated.

How to comprehend easily?

Scan the chapter first. Identify the sections to which the author devotes the most amount of space – what where the text focuses. If there are lots of diagrams for a particular topic, then that must also be an important concept.

If you’re really under time pressure, you can skip the sections to which the least amount of space is devoted.

Take note on headings and read the first sentence of every paragraph more carefully than the rest of the paragraph. The main idea is usually situated there. Read the important parts and the main ideas. Focus on nouns and main propositions in each sentence. Look for the noun-verb combinations, and focus the mind on these.

Then, close the book and ask yourself what you now know about the subject that you didn’t know before you started.

Reducing Skip Backs

Important: Don’t reread the same phrases from the text!

Poor readers read and reread the same phrase over and over again.

This habit of making “regressions” doubles or worse triples reading time and often does not even result in better comprehension. A single careful, attentive speed reading may not be always enough for completely comprehending the matter you are reading, but is often more effective than constant regressions in the middle rate of a reading.

It is best to work on paying closer attention and doing a preview first before the careful reading.

To help reduce the number of times that the eyes goes back to a previous word or sentence, run a pointer along the line as you read. This could be a finger, a pen or any pointed material.

Your eyes will follow the tip of your pointer, smoothing the flow of speed reading. The speed at which you read using this method will largely depend on the speed at which you move the pointer; so if you want to speed up your reading, you also have to increase your pointing rate.