Re: Praxis 2 Art Content 0134

Mary Cook

Posted on 2/10/12

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Thanks so much for posting about your experience! I am
taking the test next month. How in depth did they go in
regards to processes and materials? What did the History
part involve? Were there questions on Safety? Film or video
production? Any additional details would be much
appreciated!

On 2/10/12, Laurie wrote:
> Woohoo!! I passed!! It wasn't so bad. I had some room
> to breath on my
> score. I never took the old test but from what I've
> seen the new one is much more practical and related to
> art making, and less to art history. There were about
> 11 questions out of 200 that stumped me, the rest I
> atleast had some idea on. My study stuff was the Mona
> Lisa book, the artist's Handbook by Ray Smith, and a
> couple of old high school art textbooks. I found a site
> that will let you test out there textbooks online for a
> month @ http://mydavisdigital.com
>
> Just make sure you know the how to's for the various
> art genre's and you'll be fine - watercolors,
> printmaking, ceramics, photography, digital
> photography. That's my strong end, the art history was
> where I'm a bit thin. I was lost in digital photography
> and went to a bunch of websites to read up on
> aperature, ISO... Also know your elements and
> principles.

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