CLEP* Study Guide
English Composition
The only study guide that teaches you what you need to know to pass the English Composition exam (with no prior knowledge needed), and is constantly updated based on student feedback to guarantee you the best possible results.
About the CLEP* Exam
The English Composition (with or without Essay) CLEP exam is designed to test writing skills that a student would typically learn in a first-year college composition course. InstantCert's course prepares you for the multiple choice portion of the exam, focusing on sentence-level composition skills; students taking the version that includes an essay will need to prepare for the essay-writing portion using other resources.
Topics Covered in this Course
Basic Grammar
Parts of speech
Independent / dependent clauses
Incomplete sentences and run-on sentences
Combining sentences
Identifying Sentence Errors, Improving Sentences, and Restructuring Sentences
Sentence boundaries
Clarity of expression
Agreement: subject-verb; verb tense; pronoun reference, shift, number
Syntax: parallelism, coordination, subordination, dangling modifiers
Sentence variety
Customer Test Results for this Exam
284 users submitted test results since January, 2006.
265 of those users reported a passing score (93%).
Below are ten of the most recent user-submitted test results. These are unfiltered, real results that were submitted by InstantCert students:
| Date of Exam | Result | Score |
| Jul 5, 2024 | passed | 60 |
| Jun 6, 2024 | passed | 55 |
| May 29, 2024 | passed | 58 |
| Apr 18, 2024 | passed | 50 |
| Apr 11, 2024 | failed | 42 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | failed | 48 |
| Feb 13, 2024 | passed | 69 |
| Jan 30, 2024 | passed | 50 |
| Sep 8, 2023 | passed | 63 |
| Jul 20, 2023 | passed | 53 |
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