Shmoop -- maximizing subscription

[originalamyj]

Thanks- it might work then. The ROI on this degree is pretty good, so I might do it.

Would love to hear your ideas/experience with the ROI on the English degree. You are a technical writer, would it be mostly in that area? I am pursuing English because it's my love. I currently teach literature and composition to homeschoolers but after I have the degree I would love to open my own tutoring business. I have to stay home for the next ? number of years because I care for my elderly mother in law, but later I would like to do something with this degree online so we can be more mobile. Tutoring or grading essays, things like that. I love editing essays and working with high school kids to improve their writing skills so I may find a way to stick with that. 

[dfrecore]

This sounds like exactly the right degree for your interests & goals.  I would stick with it.  The BA in English is MUCH more relevant than a BALS, for sure.

[Yenisei]

Thanks- it might work then. The ROI on this degree is pretty good, so I might do it.

Would love to hear your ideas/experience with the ROI on the English degree. You are a technical writer, would it be mostly in that area? I am pursuing English because it's my love. I currently teach literature and composition to homeschoolers but after I have the degree I would love to open my own tutoring business. I have to stay home for the next ? number of years because I care for my elderly mother in law, but later I would like to do something with this degree online so we can be more mobile. Tutoring or grading essays, things like that. I love editing essays and working with high school kids to improve their writing skills so I may find a way to stick with that. 

The only real utility an English degree has for me is for getting a job as a techical writer in the US (I've worked as one for five years in Germany, where they want a technical background, which I do have). I do translations as well, so that's another potential area for ROI on a BA in English.

[a2jc4life]

I found the Lit courses much more subjective than the History ones. Bible as Lit was more like a history course than Lit.

Having now taken the two courses I asked about previously (but not taken any actual history classes), I am inclined to agree with this.  Bible as Literature and Literature in the Media were radically different, IMO, in general "feel" of the tests, and looking back through the lens of this thread, I think it was a matter of degree of subjectivity.  Bible as Lit was largely objective; Lit in the Media was almost entirely subjective.

[Paramedic12]

I completed about 80 credits of shmoop in a matter of three months. I would skip the lessons and go straight into the exams. I never failed a class but i did score about 75% in most of the classes. It was the easiest and fastest way to earn a bachelors in my opinion and the whole subscription cost me under 300 for right around 80 credits.

[Ideas]

I completed about 80 credits of shmoop in a matter of three months. I would skip the lessons and go straight into the exams. I never failed a class but i did score about 75% in most of the classes. It was the easiest and fastest way to earn a bachelors in my opinion and the whole subscription cost me under 300 for right around 80 credits.

Impressive. Do you have any feedback on the Lit courses, especially the UL ones or the more subjective ones? I felt like even though I had read the content more than once, the answers weren't really there.

[Paramedic12]

I really enjoyed the lit courses and UL’s were slightly more in depth but manageable. Each course took me roughly 6 hours to complete. The questions are very strange and hard to find within the text so it requires you to think outside the box.

[originalamyj]

Y’all are getting me all skeered to do Shmoop! I do wish I didn’t have to rely on them so much as a provider of inexpensive UL English credits. Maybe instead of using my upcoming holiday break for CLEPs I should just dive in to Shmoop and see how it goes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Ideas]

Y’all are getting me all skeered to do Shmoop! I do wish I didn’t have to rely on them so much as a provider of inexpensive UL English credits. Maybe instead of using my upcoming holiday break for CLEPs I should just dive in to Shmoop and see how it goes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Paramedic12's posts make it sound fast and easy to do them. 

You've never done one then? I get you confused with that other user who has done 1 Lit course at Shmoop (or maybe 2).

I wish they had a few more UL options so I could pick.

[Doodlebabe]

I completed about 80 credits of shmoop in a matter of three months. I would skip the lessons and go straight into the exams. I never failed a class but i did score about 75% in most of the classes. It was the easiest and fastest way to earn a bachelors in my opinion and the whole subscription cost me under 300 for right around 80 credits.

I really enjoyed the lit courses and UL’s were slightly more in depth but manageable. Each course took me roughly 6 hours to complete. The questions are very strange and hard to find within the text so it requires you to think outside the box.

Slightly confused. I'm starting Shmoop as soon as I'm done with the psych course I'm working on. Are you talking about final exams or are there chapter exams and those are the ones you went straight to?
For the lit courses, are you saying 6 hours to get through exams, including final? Or you had to slow down and go through the course material?