CLEP College Composition Modular case studies
CLEP College Composition Modular · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The College Composition Modular exam is a College Board CLEP exam composed entirely of multiple-choice questions and covers material usually taught in a one-semester college composition course. It is intended for students who already write at a first-year college level and want to earn credit by examination instead of taking the course; the exam is built as a standalone multiple-choice assessment, and most colleges award credit on the basis of this exam alone. The CLEP College Composition Modular case studies are 5 cases and about 3,230 words.
1The Style Guide Only Half Applies
Priya edits a policy brief for a public-health journal. Its style guide sets three rules: a collective noun takes a singular verb when the group acts as a unit; "data" is plural in the research section but singular in the practitioner section; and singular "they" is acceptable when a subject's gender is unknown or irrelevant.
634 words, about 3 min2Cutting 95 Words to 60 Without Overstating
Marcus is cutting a 95-word paragraph to a 60-word figure caption for a report on a bike-lane pilot in a city of 240,000. Crashes involving cyclists fell 31 percent.
641 words, about 3 min3Three Sources, One Unread
Dev is drafting a 1,200-word review of after-school tutoring programs. He has three sources: (A) a 2019 meta-analysis of 42 studies reporting a modest positive effect; (B) a 2023 randomized study of 300 students finding no effect; (C) a widely shared practitioner blog post that summarizes A and calls the finding "settled science." Dev has read A and B in full; he has only skimmed C's summary of A.
599 words, about 3 min4Reading an Op-Ed for the Committee That Will Vote on It
An op-ed in a mid-size city paper argues for restoring a night-bus route. It opens with a nurse's 90-minute commute after her shift ends at 11 p.m., cites a transit authority figure - "late-shift ridership rose 18 percent during the pilot" - and closes: "No one should lose a job because the last bus leaves at 9:40." Priya is analyzing the op-ed for an audience of the city council's finance committee, which has cut two transit proposals this year and has publicly asked applicants for per-rider cost data.
673 words, about 3 min5Three Sentences in an Incident Report
An incident report from a distribution warehouse contains three sentences: (1) "Having inspected the pallet rack, the missing bolt was noticed." (2) "The guardrail was not reattached after maintenance." (3) "An employee was struck by a falling box." The safety manager's constraints are: assign responsibility only where the record supports it; preserve the fact that no one knows who removed the guardrail; and produce a document that will survive a regulatory review, in which unspecified agency reads as concealment. The record shows a maintenance log closing the guardrail job at 14:10 with no signature, and a camera gap from 14:05 to 14:20.
683 words, about 3 min