CLEP Tests

The content of the exam is broken down as follows: ancient Near East (8-10% of the exam); ancient Greece and Hellenistic civilization (15-17%); ancient Rome (15-17%); medieval history (23-27%); Renaissance and Reformation (13-17%); and early modern Europe, 1560 to 1648 (10-15%).

The content of the exam is broken down as follows: absolutism and constitutionalism, 1648 to 1715 (7-9% of the exam); competition for empire and economic expansion (4-6%); scientific view of the world (5-7%); Enlightenment period (7-9%); revolution and Napoleonic Europe (10-13%); the Industrial Revolution (7-9%); political and cultural developments, 1815-1848 (6-8%); politics and diplomacy in the Age of Nationalism, 1850 to 1914 (7-9%); economy, culture, and imperialism, 1850 to 1914 (7-9%); Europe between the wars (7-9%); and the Second World War and contemporary Europe (8-10%).

The content of the exam is broken down as follows: the origin and evolution of life and the classification of organisms (10% of the exam); cell organization, cell division, the chemical nature of the gene, bioenergetics, and biosynthesis (10%); the structure, function, and development of organisms (20%); concepts of population biology with emphasis on ecology (10%); atomic and nuclear structure, elementary particles, and nuclear reactions (7%); chemical elements, compounds and reactions, molecular structure, and molecular bonding (10%); heat, thermodynamics, states of matter, classical mechanics, and relativity (12%); electricity and magnetism, waves, and light and sound (4%); galaxies, stars, and the solar system (7%); and the Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, structure, properties, surface features, geological processes, and history (10%).