Formulating an Approach to the CSET English Examination

The CSET Single Subject English exam can be one of the most brutal challenges for teachers trying to get their teaching certification for the high school classroom in the state of California. The most feared thing in a teacher candidate's mind is preparing for the CSET English exam. Let’s clear up some myths and figure out this CSET English enigma with several concrete techniques for you to achieve good CSET English scores and your most excellent teaching English position.

Surely, the English CSET test without doubt demands a programmed preparation. It has been proven that test takers who get ready for the CSET test attain higher scores than those who do not put much emphasis on planning.

Following in this article we will look at planning and then preparation. I have written this article founded on observations and ideas from numerous successful CSET students and from my useful learning in helping test takers pass the CSET English test.

The first thing you need to think about is how long do you have to train for the CSET exam. Many students might have four weeks, others might have four months. Your decision regarding a study plan out of necessity should be exclusively based on your study schedule. After you come up with a schedule you will need to look at:

1. Self-appraisal
a. Areas of strength
b. Areas of weakness
c. Online course (software) or books

Doing a Self-Assessment

Determine if you need a CSET English exam study course by thinking about your strong and weak areas of learning. For example, some people could be good at reading from a book and then memorizing the information, while others may not have the capacity to retain information from a book and then remember that information during the exam. If you belong to the first category purchase a cheap book from a major publisher and use free online websites and begin your preparation based on them. This plan of attack will save you money. Even so, know that a CSET English book or downloadable PDF is static and non-interactive and does not even begin to address memorization like my CSET English class does but for several quizzes that a publisher might include.

If you belong to the second category then be careful in coming up with what study materials to use for the CSET test as useless study guides flood the market place and only several good test prep books are out there. Talk to teachers who have already taken the CSET test and discover which CSET study guide is effective and will go with your learning style. Make sure you personally know these people. Do not take the word of an alias user in a public message forum. In the test preparation industry, publishers or their employees will often create fake personae in public message forums to sell their products. Even the customer feedback on Amazon.com must not be trusted. I have seen many people not pass the CSET test because they followed the advice of a fake teacher from a CSET message forum.

A fantastic online English class is ACE the CSET English by Confab Publishing. Test takers say ACE the CSET English best mimicks the actual CSET English exam. ACE the CSET English has plenty of outstanding interactive activities such as: chronology, fill-in, matching, point and click, and even crosswords—essential tools for those who demand more help learning the materials needed to ace the CSET English test.

The course also promotes visual and audio learning in that it provides several hours worth of video and audio from popular websites like TeacherTube and YouTube plus our own exclusive CSET English educational videos. The online course needs no special software and teachers can access the class with any typical browser and Internet access.

There are many free websites available for the CSET English exam on the web. I do not recommend CSET message forums because of the problems mentioned above regarding dishonest business owners who post in a public message forum merely to advertise their own products, goods, or services. My advice is that if a business needs to post in a CSET message forum under an alias account in order to promote business for his goods, then the products, goods, or services must not be that good in the first place. That publisher or teacher would be wise to spend more time on product development than on dishonest marketing tactics. A fantastic product or service will generate plenty of business by honest word of mouth referrals from people who achieved certification, like my online CSET English course. Another reason I do not recommend CSET message forums is that often, it can be the blind leading the blind. Knowledge is often posted in forums that is erroneous and filled with errors. Finally, CSET message forums are very time consuming. Often days of CSET preparation are lost scrolling through egocentric, conflicting, and emotionally charged messages. It can take hours of scrolling through chit-chat messages to find valuable information. This is not effective time management in preparing for the CSET test.

Several free websites that are great include Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg.

Do not forget, a passing CSET score will save you 1000's of dollars by getting you your ideal teaching position quickly, as opposed to not passing and delaying your career. So focus in on how you will approach your CSET test preparation.

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Shiela King is a test expert and critic for ACE the CSET English prep course which is the best way to ace the CSET English test. Go to www.acethecset.com for more information on CSET exam preparation.

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