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Lucky this rule wasn’t in place when I was completing courses. Otherwise, I would not have been able to transfer 100 credits in time for the April capstone.
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It is in fact a hard limit. Here is there response:
With a College Accelerator subscription to Study.com, you'll now be able to take up to 5 exams per month. We enacted this policy to maintain alignment with the academic standards of our partner schools. If you have any urgent questions or concerns about this, please let us know.
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setup a second account
unfortunately you'd still have to pay another $200 for the month inseatd of just the additional $70 per exam
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(05-30-2019, 01:37 PM)jsd Wrote: setup a second account
unfortunately you'd still have to pay another $200 for the month inseatd of just the additional $70 per exam
I would say that if Study.com is trying to maintain academic integrity with a school, you're better off following the program and doing 5 courses a month. What happens if TESU decides that they're no longer going to accept Study.com courses like they did with Shmoop? That would suck for a LOT of people.
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Will probably go to straighterline after the 5 courses each month
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I understand having a limit for NEW subscribers and certain age 18-22, however, I am a career veteran of 20 years.
I know the material and in fact, I have already completed 20 courses, videos, and exams on SDC platform except taking the final proctor exam. I have spent a great deal of time going through all twenty courses and it's quizzes. Taking the courses elsewhere would be like starting completely over again.
This means I would have to wait 4 months to take the final proctor exam.
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(06-10-2019, 08:31 PM)HogwartsSchool Wrote: I understand having a limit for NEW subscribers and certain age 18-22, however, I am a career veteran of 20 years.
I know the material and in fact, I have already completed 20 courses, videos, and exams on SDC platform except taking the final proctor exam. I have spent a great deal of time going through all twenty courses and it's quizzes. Taking the courses elsewhere would be like starting completely over again.
This means I would have to wait 4 months to take the final proctor exam.
It has nothing to do with your skill and knowledge. It is about how many courses appear on the transcript in a short period of time. No matter how much prior knowledge someone has, completing 20 courses in a month looks very suspicious. Even completing 5 courses a month could be seen as suspicious if it is happening every single month.
In comparison, a very driven student might potentially complete 8 courses in the same term at a normal 4-year university but that would only happen every four months or so, which averages to about 2 courses per month. At 5 courses per month, you're already moving at 2.5x the speed of the fastest traditional college student. I don't know where they draw the line on what is and isn't acceptable, but 5 courses per month seems reasonable to me.
This comes down to schools wanting to maintain their accreditation. No college wants to put that at risk because some students are able to complete online courses more quickly than others and the school accepted the courses for college credit. Therefore providers like Study.com don't want schools to boycott their courses because they put the school's accreditation in jeopardy.
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I know this conversation is happening on two threads now, but the posts here make me believe that the decision is based on both trying to maintain an air of legitimacy to their own courses and the business reality of needing to support partner schools' accreditation. There will always be questions of rigor if course after course appears rapidly in conjunction on a transcript. The record won't indicate how long you prepped for each course, nor when you started; the courses will simply show up as exam completion date after completion date in relatively rapid succession, which is a very nontraditional pattern that sadly does open itself to questions of legitimacy when the norm still remains a limited number of courses per academic term.
I will still recommend just taking some of the exams elsewhere in the meantime.
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