Free Human Growth and Development CLEP Practice Test

No. Real exam questions belong to College Board, and the exam changes its questions all the time, so anyone who claims their study guide has the exact questions is lying. These 10 come straight out of our 366-card Human Growth and Development study guide. Every one is a fill-in-the-blank sentence with four choices. The real exam is multiple choice too, but many of its questions hand you a short scenario and ask what a theory would predict. Ours check whether you know the term. They do not check whether you can apply it.

No, and it is better you hear that from us. The exam has 12 content areas and our 20 free questions (10 on this page, 10 more by email) reach 9 of them. There is nothing on Research Strategies and Methodology, Perceptual Development, or Intelligence, which add up to 18% of the real exam. Biological Development gets 5 of the 20 questions, about double its real share of 12%. None of the 20 mentions Kohlberg or Bronfenbrenner. The comparison table above has the full count. Use your score as a check on the terms, NOT as a forecast for the whole test.

90 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes, which works out to 60 seconds per question.

50, at most schools. Scores run on a scale of 20 to 80, and some schools require a 60, so check your school's CLEP policy before you register. Passing earns 3 semester hours at most schools.

Middle of the road, and about as hard as Introductory Psychology. Look at who is passing before you relax, though. The civilian pass rate is 75%, which means about 1 in 4 people who pay to sit this exam do not pass. The military pass rate is 51%. Military test takers sit the exam for free, so more of them walk in with little or no studying, and about half of them do not pass. Among InstantCert students who reported a score, 94% passed. The trap is that the content feels familiar, because everyone has lived through at least some of these life stages. That familiarity does NOT get you a 50. The exam asks for the theorists, their frameworks, and the correct terms, and it often asks you to apply them to a scenario.

Finish the 10 above, enter your email on the score screen and you get 10 more free practice questions.

For most students, yes. 94% of the InstantCert students who reported a score passed, and the exam is heavily theory-based, which is what flashcards drill. One Google reviewer wrote that for this exam and Sociology, "I only used these flash cards and studied for about 3 days before I took the tests and passed both." With that being said, 3 days is fast, and you should not plan around it. Another reviewer gave us four stars and wrote that "not a lot of the material on the test was in my flash cards." That reviewer still passed, but the complaint is the caveat in one sentence: the real exam words things as scenarios, so memorizing stage names is not enough. Study until you can explain why each theory predicts what it does, and finish with the timed practice tests. If you have had a psychology or education class, plan on 2 to 3 weeks. Starting from scratch, plan on 3 to 5.

Yes. You can download it above with no signup and no email address.

There is no magic number. The real exam is 90 questions, and no free practice set comes close to that length or covers all 12 content areas. Ours does not, as the answers above explain. Do our 20, then College Board's sample questions for the application style, then work through the full 366-card set. Before you book a test date, sit at least one of the 3 timed practice tests in the study guide against the clock.

Yes. It is the only place to see retired real questions, and the best free example of how the exam turns a theory into a scenario. The free sample set is short, though, so do not count on it alone.

2 to 3 weeks if you have taken a psychology or education class. 3 to 5 weeks of self-study if you are starting from scratch. In both cases most of that time goes to the theorists, so try the flashcards on their own first and add a full course only if the explanations are not enough.

Most accredited U.S. colleges and universities accept it for 3 semester hours, usually toward an education, psychology, or social science requirement. A few highly selective schools do not accept CLEP at all, and some schools cap the total CLEP credit you can apply to a degree. College Board has a credit policy search tool, but it is not always up to date, so confirm with your college before you pay the $97.