Study.com - Course Progress? Is this normal??

[jsh1138]

Good evening all,
After finishing the Finance class (due to the guardian scholarship), I started two nights ago MAT 97.   There’s a lot of info so far and I have been doing a few hours or so each day since Friday through tonight.  

My question to the study.com pro’s our there: do you  watch and/or read EVERY class lesson?   That is what I am doing and there are a 123 lessons in this course which averages 8 minutes per video.  

I have watched or read every lesson and completed all the quizzes up to chapter 6 out of 22.   How is it though that some people literally FLY through the study.com courses?   Is if due to having strong prior knowledge and you just jump right to the quizzes?   Am I missing something?

I did the basic math calculation and if I watch every lesson, average 8 minutes each, for all lessons that would be a total of 16.4 hours (not counting the time for the quizzes or to study for the final exam).  Let’s say you study for about 2-3 hours in prep for the proctored final exam, is 20 hours the norm for each class?

It just seems that some people get through these courses in a day (some multiple courses in a day).

If any can share their insights into this or experience I would really appreciate it because it seems like it’s really time consuming (but maybe it should be??).

Thanks again.

some Study.com courses are more like 40 lessons, is the piece of the puzzle you're missing. I've burned through a course in a day before but the ones that are 150ish take awhile and no one is knocking those out in a day or two