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What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - rachel83az - 08-23-2022
Of all the classes I have remaining, I am most dreading Managerial Accounting. I took the TECEP at the beginning of the year, failing by just a couple of points, and since then I've been dreading getting back to it. Trying to read study materials, my eyes just kind of glaze over and I don't absorb anything. How did you all get through subjects like this?
I really wish Sophia had Managerial Accounting and not just Financial Accounting!
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - ss20ts - 08-23-2022
Cost Accounting. Enough said. That class was brutal. Made Managerial Accounting look like a picnic at the lake with Funfetti cupcakes.
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - freeloader - 08-23-2022
Organic Chemistry. It was by far the most boring class I took. It was challenging but not crazy hard just SO BORING. I dealt with it by changing from a chemistry major to history.
A close second was government and non-profit accounting. Fund accounting is awful. Absolutely awful. I actually tried it 3 times and dropped it twice. I did finally get through it at UMPI. It is just so different than “normal” financial and managerial accounting that I really did struggle to get my mind around it.
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - LevelUP - 08-24-2022
(08-23-2022, 05:12 PM)rachel83az Wrote: Of all the classes I have remaining, I am most dreading Managerial Accounting. I took the TECEP at the beginning of the year, failing by just a couple of points, and since then I've been dreading getting back to it. Trying to read study materials, my eyes just kind of glaze over and I don't absorb anything. How did you all get through subjects like this?
I really wish Sophia had Managerial Accounting and not just Financial Accounting!
I took Managerial Accounting at SL. The Study.com course seems pretty easy, with only around 80 lessons and no assignments. The process with SDC is to score 100% on the quizzes, then, if you can score 65% on the practice exam, you should be able to pass. Maybe it's not the cheapest option, but sometimes it's better to pay extra if you can save time.
Computer Architecture and Calculus were my hardest courses by far. Computer Architecture, at least, was only the assignment that was hard. Felt like I was chasing my own tail trying to figure out that project. At that time, I had the willpower to put the hours into it so I could pass.
Calculus I failed the first assignment, then realized how big of a mountain I was going to have to climb. After 6 straight months of being enrolled in TESU, I tried Calculus in the spring after TESU, then quit Calculus till until almost the end of the year. What worked for me was making some insane notes writing down every single formula I had to know and keeping details of every single problem I did.
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - bjcheung77 - 08-24-2022
Everyone is different... There are courses that you will like and others you won't... For the first 90 credits or so, I used StraighterLine back then, took 4 Accounting courses and the Cost Accounting course was the hardest by far as it was Upper Level versus the other 3 that were lower level. I decided then Accounting wasn't really for me, it's great to learn it, but didn't really want to go into it.
Having said that, however, it wasn't my worse course, Statistics was, I took 2 months on ALEKS and couldn't just get past that 70%, for some reason as it is Calculus based. I took it again at StraighterLine thinking the Intro to Calculus would be easier, I got stalled/stuck at about the same spot, didn't get past 70% again as it's Calculus based. I got past that course with SL Business Stats instead as it was Algebra based!
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - frankc - 08-24-2022
Intro to programming taught in C++,
I went to Ohio University ten years ago, and they used it as their first computer science course. I had no clue what was going on... Python or Java would be a much better first computer science course.
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - MrPanda - 08-24-2022
Financial Risk Manager certification exams (I & II) by GARP.
For each exam I did a list of all the topics that entered into the exam, it was around 120 topics for one exam and 142 for the second one.
Then I calculated that I needed to cover 2 topics per day, if I wanted to finish with at least 1 month to spare.
I did reading + practice questions of 2 chapters in each study session.
Then I had one re-read in some other day.
I put marks in my Excel file for each topic that were:
"Read" "Exercises" "Review"
With all the dates, and a counter of:
"I have to cover X number of topics per day, if I want to finish 1 month early"
"I have to cover Y number of topics per day, if I want to finish 2 weeks early"
in the end, I was happy to cross each box, so I kept going.
I also didn´t want to see that counter going up.
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - lisarox - 08-25-2022
(08-23-2022, 05:17 PM)ss20ts Wrote: Cost Accounting. Enough said. That class was brutal. Made Managerial Accounting look like a picnic at the lake with Funfetti cupcakes.Cost accounting is terrible. It's why I failed BEC three times lol
RE: What is/was your most hated class and how have you dealt with it? - splirow - 08-29-2022
(08-23-2022, 05:12 PM)rachel83az Wrote: Of all the classes I have remaining, I am most dreading Managerial Accounting. I took the TECEP at the beginning of the year, failing by just a couple of points, and since then I've been dreading getting back to it. Trying to read study materials, my eyes just kind of glaze over and I don't absorb anything. How did you all get through subjects like this?
I really wish Sophia had Managerial Accounting and not just Financial Accounting!
Take it at instantcert. It was not as hard as when i took it in community college.