ECE World Population (is it SOC or GEO) and does it duplicate GEO?

I just took the ECE World Population (upper level) exam today and passed. ANYWAY I was just thinking- I already have lower level credit in both Physical Geography and Human/Cultural Geography 3 credits each. Will World Population duplicate either one of those or both since there was so much overlap in the content?

Also does World Population count as a Geography or a Sociology for TESC???

 

No, it doesn't duplicate either one of the lower division courses that you already completed. To me, the world population exams represents and upper-division course in population geography. I talked to someone at EC about the exam (I was looking at a degree in Geography). They said I could use it for an upper-division requirement for the Geography degree. I couldn't tell you about what TESC says about it because they don't seem to answer advisement questions.

 

How difficult was the World Population exam? How long did you study? Any help would be appreciated.

 

Well I cant compare it to any other ECE Exams, however I'd say its average to easy. I'd say some light revision of the CIA world factbook online helps. BAin4weeks.com discusses the test prep well.

I've also been interested in Geography and took courses in it before so that helps.

The test looks hard and I didn't think Id do as well as I did, but REMEMBER this is not graded like a traditional test where you need for example, 70% to pass. I don't think they even score by percent correct.

Just know about fertility rates, Malthusian Doctrine...stuff like that. Any geography textbook would help. You can also look up the free online course outline and then research the individual topics with web-search (birth rates, Boserup and Simon, Karl Marx, Gross Reproduction Rate...) Id say depending on your background some light revision would be good. Some MAY be able to pass w/o study (and I think it's possible) but for $180 I wouldn't recommend doing that.