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I'm just wrapping up Cyber 101, which has been hundreds of pages of tedious and questionable material. I realize it's the non-technical one but do Cyber 201 and Cyber 301 go faster than this? Or is it just more of the same?
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01-02-2019, 06:43 PM
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(01-02-2019, 06:31 PM)jsh1138 Wrote: I'm just wrapping up Cyber 101, which has been hundreds of pages of tedious and questionable material. I realize it's the non-technical one but do Cyber 201 and Cyber 301 go faster than this? Or is it just more of the same?
They're all like that. If anything, the later ones are worse because they are longer.
Luckily, much of the material presented was stuff I was already familiar with, so after going step by step through Cyber 101, I ended up just going faster through 201 and 301 by skimming the material for things that were different or that I hadn't seen before, and then jumping into the test. I also made sure to pay attention to the pre-tests at the beginning of each new section and focus on areas that I didn't know the answers to when I was doing my quick review. That made 201 and 301 go much quicker.
Either way, I still think that those courses are not correctly assessed by ACE. Given the amount of material and depth they go into, each of the sub-courses should probably be worth 1 sh of credit, so in combination Cyber 101 should be 3 sh, Cyber 201 should be 4 sh, and Cyber 301 should be 3 sh. At least in my opinion. 
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all you had to do was say "longer". I'm out. I would rather pay Study.com $100 than do 2 more of these for LL credits.
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(01-02-2019, 06:56 PM)jsh1138 Wrote: all you had to do was say "longer". I'm out. I would rather pay Study.com $100 than do 2 more of these for LL credits.
Thank you for saving me hours of my life
Doing them on Study.com will be faster for sure. Plus you only have to take two courses to get the same number of credits.
Had I realized how much time they were going to take when I first started down that path, I probably would have avoided TEEX as well. I took those courses before I had any experience with Study.com.
Luckily the Cybersecurity courses were still valuable for my degree so it was worth it in the end. My only lament is that I should have transferred those courses to TESU before they downgraded them from UL to LL since I took them in February of last year, well before the downgrade. That would have eliminated the need to take two UL CS courses.
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(01-02-2019, 06:56 PM)jsh1138 Wrote: all you had to do was say "longer". I'm out. I would rather pay Study.com $100 than do 2 more of these for LL credits.
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LOL they are pretty awful. Sometimes we have more money, sometimes we have more time.
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Oh!! What an absolute pain!!! I almost started to feel depressed half way through those courses. I endured them purely for the sake of 6 free credits, which, at this point of time, is quite valuable for me from a financial stand point. I am feeling so bad to hear that they were initially graded as UL courses! I too feel that for the sheer rigor of these courses, they should each be eligible for 3 credits at least.
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All of that said - these courses are a drag. Truly. The questions and answers are silly at best - focusing on some material that makes me question who put the courses together's competence.
If I had known the path and ultimate ending of my degree, I wouldn't have bothered with them. I would have just taken 2 easy SDC courses and hammered those out - and paid for the extra exams.
If you want to save some money and get free credits - get that minimum passing score however you have to and forget the material in those courses immediately.
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I just clicked through and did the tests lol
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I just finished four modules of them for cyber 201. Super long courses. I didn't even need the LL credit. But I guess it doesn't hurt to have it on resume....
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(01-02-2019, 07:33 PM)cookderosa Wrote: (01-02-2019, 06:56 PM)jsh1138 Wrote: all you had to do was say "longer". I'm out. I would rather pay Study.com $100 than do 2 more of these for LL credits.
Thank you for saving me hours of my life
LOL they are pretty awful. Sometimes we have more money, sometimes we have more time.
This is true. But Clep is the perfect combination right now for a lot of people. Completely free with Modern States and a lot of them can be done in about the same amount of time as a Study.com or SL course. I don't know how much longer modern states will last, but I'm so grateful I was able to do the majority of my degree with clep (and the study.com guardian scholarship as well).
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