Have you looked at the part of the website that talks about free past papers? I would look at one of those. What I am seeing on the website says Gcse level so Igcse should be great. Did you see this book/resourse list? It was part of the free papers section. Further reading Preparing for the BMAT: The Official Guide to the BioMedical Admissions Test Thinking Skills by Butterworth, John and Thwaites, Geoff Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction by Thomson, Anne Thinking from A to Z (2nd Edition) by Warburton, Nigel Critical Thinking: An Introduction by Fisher, Alec Just so I understand my question your dd plans to use this for a seat limited program in Netherlands? The Prof is actually Dutch with his dd in Uni there. We leave our house at 8:45 or so.

Shukriyya, I just want to say I have loved seeing your aviator today when I have checked on the thread. Made me smile. Great to see you here! :grouphug:

I think I will see a friend who teaches Chemistry at one of the listed University's tomorrow. I will try and ask about that exam. I have never heard of it. I didn't know your dd was planning to go into a medical field.......I thought literature and languages for some reason.

I found the Kate Burkeholder series to be oddly distracting last summer also. I think I have said this before but you would enjoy the Julia Spencer Fleming series also. The first book in that series is a necessary read although I didn't particularly care for it, I listened to most of the series and the first one repeated the amazement that a woman priest can exist way too many times. The story was good but those scenes really tempted to stop! I found the audio book for the first in your Susan Hill series. I plan to give it a try as soon as I finish The Twelve, all 25 or so hours of it. Since I can't seem to read it I decided to listen to it while doing my Christmas Crafting. I just finished reading the second in a series, Charlaine Harris' Midnight Series, that I had completely forgot about. Day Shift was pretty good considering that I remembered very little of the ongoing story line. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25250449-night-shift. I put the last one on hold so I can read it before I forget it all again! Finding completed series really is easier...... I did finish listening to The Muralist https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25074713-the-muralist by BA Shapiro. It was sad overall with rays of hope. Much of it took place in New York's art world during the 1940's. A young Jewish French artist was the central character. Her frantic attempts to get visas for her European family members much of the story. Mental illness of the extremely gifted was another theme. Does it need to be present for that level of creativity? Thought provoking but not fabulous. I'm not trying to write a review that gets many here to read this book! ;) I only gave it three stars......

I actually read the Castle of Ortrano a couple of days ago for my square. Great minds......;) in my case it looked the most palatable of my choices. It was not the greatest. I can't find that one but did find another by that author which I might try. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317445.Nine_Layers_of_Sky

I just finished The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21416690-the-invisible-library. Someone here read it first and recommended it.....it was great! :) I wish I could remember who! Librarians travel between alternate worlds collecting books for a master library. It was a bit of a paranormal, steampunk, sci fi mash up. I think a pretty wide variety of BaWer's might like it.......Jenn, Robin, Noseinabook, Kareni, Sadie, and maybe even Angel come to mind. Yes, pretty broad spectrum....... Jane would not like it. ;) I am waiting for the next one.

Angel, The Cursed Child is my play. ;)

It is wonderful to be able to get a new PM without an election. ;) :lol: Have to admit everyone here is complaining that the election is stressful too! Can't even imagine that many issues on one ballot. I hope you enjoy the quilting and the Dr. Who book. Btw, I have been on a Lucy Boston marathon. Listened the The Children of Green Knowe and reading the Patchwork of Lucy Boston. Lovely book, more little snippets of her life interspersed with photos of her quilts. Things like how much she paid for her fabric after WWII. She made incredible quilts into her 90's all by hand with EPP. I am inspired. Tomorrow I work on finishing the table runner I experimented with using her pattern. I will give the series another try. Btw, that is a favourite Dr. Who episode. I love the temporary companion. Instead of Dr. Who she went on to play Morgan le fay in Merlin. Another series James might like.... I have read a couple of the Royal books. Enjoyable but not a huge urge to read more. Planning to look for audio since both you and Kathy liked the audio form better. I hope everyone feels better!

You should go to a motel meeting for A Beka and look at the complete curriculum. I used the A beka and thought it was great value. http://www.abeka.com/MaterialsDisplay/default.aspx?zip=35202&distance=100&Search2.x=23&Search2.y=10&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 I had a copy of Phonics Pathways and found it really hard to implement. The one from Peace Hill Press was much easier......Ordinary parents guide, I think.

Another series that is on my list! Stacia, I have to say I think you and the dc's would really enjoy the "new" Dr. Who's. Your dc's definitely but you too at least for Eccleston and Tennant. Matt Smith is my least favourite Doctor so I haven't even watched many of those. I do watch the current Doctor. Kareni, I can totally imagine you and your husband loving the older episodes. Dh and I frequently watch Peter Davidson's Concorde http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/timeflight/ as a comfort watch. Maybe we should watch that as opposed to Poldark on the eve of tomorrow's stress! Angela, Dh and Bf both watched Doctor Who on Saturday nights through college. That wasn't an event at my school, at least in my dorm. Now Dynasty was an event.;) Somewhere along the line Dh managed to make our Saturday night's Dr. Who night. By the time the dc's arrived we had a huge plastic bin filled with Dr. Who episodes. Ds actually learned to read in order to be able to read the labels. He knew we were keeping the scary "good" ones from him.....if he couldn't ask for it by name he didn't stand a chance of being allowed to watch! :lol: BINGO.....I am actually pretty close as long as I can use the audio version of Master and Commander. Enjoyed the audio but doubt I would like reading. I need to fill my Noble Prize square....it's any book by a winning author right? Siddhartha would work?

Double Post Sorry, Went to church. When I got home it later looked like I hadn't submitted so I did. Mistake!!!!! Also sorry for the typos. Obviously I shouldn't try to post on my way out the door! Robin, Let me know what you think of Rosemary and Rue. It's a series I tried very briefly (under 10 pages) and have wondered about trying again.

Robin, Huge Dr. Who fans at my house. I love the older episodes best. My favourite Doctors are William Hartnell (the true first) and Peter Davidson. My kids were raised on the old episodes because we had many on VHS. Lots of Dr. Who to explore....... The books aren't bad. No one has ever been huge fans f the books altough they are different stories frequently. They are something we used to buy for travel pre kindle because everyone could/would read them. I have continued to read Marie Force's Fatel series. Hugely enjoying it. I need to read the Invisible Library (BaWer recommendation) because Overdrive takes it away soon and I like it so far. I want to be able to keep my kindle on in order to let the next books in the Fatal series.....at least mine is an easy problem. ;)

Note taking is something that everyone does differently. Dd has filled a notebook for every CLEP exam she has taken. That being said when she is done reading her prep material and done her note taking she does a practice exam and generally takes the exam as soon as one can be scheduled. For her copious note taking is how she learns. In terms of how she does her notes it's her own method which has grown out of the basic out line method I taught her years ago. She writes more complete outlines in her notes than most would but they are really easy to study from. My ds on the other hand rarely puts pen to paper. He reads the book a couple of times. Uses note sets/flashcards on free computer sites like quizlet and memrise. Instantcert is a great tool for taking these exams if you want to subscribe. Ds loves it when he has a subscription and uses it copiously. Dd goes through it after having done her notetaking. Both kids pass the exams but the prep looks very different for each. Different types of learners. Neither did US History Clep exams so no words of wisdom pertaining to that exact exam. At one point I had a review book for both the SAT Subject and the the REA for US History and the basic set up was very different. I think the SAT book was very structured around each Presidency while the CLEP book was more event driven. Take a close look at the subjects covered section of Free Clep Prep http://www.free-clep-prep.com/History-of-the-United-States-I-CLEP.html. The good news is you only need to cover through 1877 for the first exam! ;) Here is a set of flashcards on quizlet that appear to be pretty helpful https://quizlet.com/88796169/us-history-1-clep-test-flash-cards/.

Congratulations to Dd and you!

Great cover! It really suits the story. :) I spent a lot of time riding in the car today which means I had reading time. I finished Janet Evanovich's Curious Minds. It's a new one and another collaboration which I generally don't care for but this book was in the light rompy style which can be good mindless fluff. First in a series and I will continue. I also read the first in a series that Kareni has recommended to me many times. One Night with You by Marie Force was a freebie prequel novella. A good quick romance book. I now have the first book wating for me. ;)

Which one(s)? Several copies of Eyre Affair have passed through our house. Dd gave it to most of her friends as presents one year after I cleared it with the mom's. Warning to Amy, The Eyre Affair and the others have a lot of swear words but otherwise pretty clean. Dd was close to your dd's age when I let her read it because it was a book she would love. While she was reading it I caught my kids in a corner with the book open with dd showing ds all the swear words mom had approved her reading. Ds wanted desperately to read it just for the words. He did read the Nursery Rhyme series. Probably not my proudest parenting moment but they were hilarious!

I can't remember exactly how later editions of TWTM "do" Usbourne/Kingfisher history books but the first and second editions give a good description of notebooking with these spines. Also a list of supplemental history themed books to read. A friend used TWTM method and Kingfisher very successfully.

I finally finished London Falling https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15779584-london-falling. I haven't had much time to read and this book didn't go all that smoothly for me. I don't do well reading just a few pages a day. As you all know I am a huge fan of the Rivers of London (Midnight Riot) and I was expecting this book to be more like that series. It was probably the wrong book for me to pick as a travel companion, total fluff would have been better. I greatly enjoyed the parts of the book pertaining to the West Ham history. I don't want to say more because I think this book is being mailed between some of you. There were parts that were great fun but I found some of it a bit blah. Kareni, Lets just say The Bunny and the Bear made it's way on to my Kindle because the title is just snort worthy.

I am assuming you checked the AP review book out of a library. AP exams have essays and CLEP exams don't. The book you have should be spending a significant portion of it's content preparing someone to write the essays. So not the greatest fit. Reading the preparation for the multiple choice questions section certainly can't hurt. The history should be the same but the format may not be the easiest because of the emphasis on the essays. Not sure if this book would make you exam ready by itself. You could check content against the exam info at Free Clep Prep. I think a review book for the US History SAT Subject exam would be a closer match in format. Both the SAT Subject Exam and Clep exams are graded on a similar scale and are all multiple choice. You have more time to complete a Clep exam. My son did actually use a SAT Subject book when studying for his Clep literature exam. Dd used a World History Subject exam book as part of her prep for Western Civ Cleps. I would only recommend using Subject exam books if they are free to you. If you need to buy a used book the REA guides are a better investment. Also Instacert was mentioned earlier. It is helpful and we did use it for some of the Dantes exams where preparation materials were pretty limited. It is essentially a huge question bank that allows a student to practice for the exam.

Not a Southerner by birth but BF is. Therefore my other mother was. I have spent years with their traditions. I understand Southern pretty well. ;) I love Midnight.....my BF's mom gave us both a copy days after the release. I have read it a few times. My alligator story from yesterday......We started our journey home at the Orlando aiport which has several retention ponds. While on the monorail a British dad yelled out "There's an alligator!" I looked. Sure enough a snout was poking up catching some rays in the middle of a nearby pond. His family was busy having a go at him because they hadn't found an alligator their entire vacation. Apparently they had tried hard. I'm his new favourite person because I interrupted (I know, not polite but I felt bad for the guy) and verified his sighting. He was totally chuffed with himself and his sons were so disappointed they hadn't looked where he was pointing!

My dd wanted to make sure you know about ACE credits https://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/College-and-University-Services.aspx. If your community college participates your options increase beyond the traditional CLEP exams. One option which we used partially is ALEKS. https://www.aleks.com/highered/math/devmath. It occasionally gives 5 day free trials. It is a program where you learn math totally on the computer and some classes do actually award ACE credit upon completion.

I have been following your other thread but haven't commented because everyone else was doing such a good job. Clep exams are something we know quite a bit about. My kids have taken many Clep exams. We start with looking at the Free Clep Prep website http://www.free-clep-prep.com. I would take a look at the list ranking the exams by difficulty http://www.free-clep-prep.com/clep-difficulty-list.html and do an easier one first. The ones ranked as hard really were! :) We normally buy an REA study guide used from Amazon or other booksellers. But Free Test Prep normally gives links etc for study and you could try it with those. We have also used classes from Coursera which are free. This was good for economics and calculus because the classes were self paced and always available. I think there is a College Algebra also. There are other websites with free course content that would be helpful also. Edx???? I think the Clep Official Study Guide contains actual exams. We had one and gave it away a couple weeks ago. We used those exams as the determining factor before taking the exam. The exams are graded on an 80 point scale with a 50 normally being passing. The foreign languages have a slightly different scale and can be worth up to 12 credit hours. If you are interested in trying a foreign language Duolingo (free website) might be a good place to start. The foreign languages do have a listening section so more would need to be done to pass most likely. Check with the Community College to see how many credits they will give for each exam. Some of the 6 credit hour exams are only 3 at some schools. The advantage is a 6 hour Clep costs the same as a 3 hour one to take. I (or my kids) are happy to try and answer any other questions. Good luck!

The UK has always had something like the new overdrive and I find it a bit clumbersome to browse things like new books. Available new books are easier to find. Unavailable books are sorted in a manner that can be harder to access. Slower also imo. It is easier to go directly to an author because it offers lots of choice so unusual spelling should no longer be a problem. It's a US account that I subscribe to that just switched. I will be honest and say I used the US one more because I liked the old system better. Ironically I was waiting for the UK to switch. The preview was up for a couple of weeks but I don't think there was an exact warning. I didn't use it for a few days and the new systen was up when I went in today. I just had to re imput all my basic account info which has been a pain since I am not at home with easy access to my numbers. I finally figured stuff out and managed to get my books out. I am feeling a bit better about it now. There are some sort functions that might be helpful that I don't think are part of the UK version. I will admit that most of my complaining is because I was good at the old system. I dislike change.

I do not like the new overdrive one bit. I think might be easier for the casual consumer (my neighbour takes her kindle to the library and has the librarian put her books on for her) but I think I am probably losing information regarding my holds I liked having. Has anyone else switched to the new overdrive? Thanks for the new ideas. I have placed the first Callihan and Thomas books on hold. Congratulations!!! I am glad you enjoyed a favourite of mine. :) I probably will go back later this week and place some holds bases on your post.

Happy Birthday to Kathy!!!! Also wishing Chews on Books great birthday! :grouphug: Rose, I hope your theatre group resolves all issues smoothly. I am currently trying to finish a Donna Andrews cozy before we leave. I did manage to finish the second book by an author I discovered during my British cozy research. The Lost Gardens by Anthony Eglin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1118522.The_Lost_Gardens was a really well done cozy especially if you enjoy gardening. There appears to be no need to read these books in any particular order, no reoccurring characters beyond the head gardener/sleuth. Definitely looking forward to reading more in this series.