The official guide to courses by Straighterline, Study, et al: We want YOUR input!

[Tripletmom]

It seems like most of these courses are completed in record time.  I must be doing something wrong because it's taking longer.  I'm using Study.com at the moment. How do you complete these courses?  Are you taking notes, doing a quick review, using the chapter practice exams?  Your input is valuable.  

Thanks so much!

I think most of us just skip the videos and read the summaries. Beyond that, I know that so far I have tended to stick to subjects that I already know alot about, so it goes faster

All of this is true for me, at least.  I'm fairly well read and to be honest I didn't come across much in any of my coursework that I hadn't at least heard of... that was a huge help.  Otherwise, if I said a course took "a weekend" it meant I started on Friday (yay for four day work weeks) and didn't stop until Sunday night, literally not leaving the house.  So while "a weekend" might not sound like a long time, it was probably realistically 30-40 hours worth of non stop work.  If I sad "over the course of a week" that probably meant a full weekend and a half plus 20 more hours during the week, or 50-80 hours total.

I do better when I can dig in, focus and roll.  One of the reasons "traditional" courses never appealed to me was because screwing around over the course of a few months sounded horrible (hated it in high school, with a few exceptions I though most of the courses could be condensed down in to a few weeks).  Let's do this, and do it now.  Even then, I have my own weaknesses and some subjects just bounce off of my head - math and chemistry come to mind.  Those are the only subjects where "immersing" myself bred more frustration than progress and felt more like drudgery than learning.

That being said, everyone is different and learns differently.  If you do better sipping as opposed to chugging, there's no shame in that.  Even I have some subjects that I need to "sip."

Thanks so much!  This puts it in perspective.  I skimmed the vietnam war and bombed the practice exam so I'll need to slow down on unfamiliar subjects.  After finding this forum, I took my butt out of the seat at my local cc and I'm almost at 60 credits.  Chances are when I send my transcript to my school they won't accept the ACE credits and I'll look into the BOG at that point.  The 15 week classes were unbearable and online classes had poor instructors.  Self-study is the key for me.