05-15-2018, 03:32 PM
Provider: Study.com
Course: English 105: college composition 2
Course content: Typical SDC style. Watch the videos/read the transcripts and take quizzes
Final exam format: 100 questions multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: final exam was passable if you take all the quizzes
Time taken on course: You can go through all the lessons and study for/take the final within a few days to a week. The projects add some time to that. Depending on how good you are at writing essays, I'd say you can submit decent ones from a days work each. If you do well enough on the quizzes and final then you can submit essays with enough points to pass the course in a few hours each. Just remember that you can resubmit essays later to get a higher grade after you make corrections. One thing that I didn't consider until after I was done with the course is submitting "rough drafts" to get graded and then making corrections and resubmitting later for a better grade.
Familiarity with subject before course: This is first year english level material. I've spoken and read exclusively in english my whole life so I'm fairly familiar with this material.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Knowing how to properly cite sources in MLA and APA is probably the trickiest part. I'd recommend referencing the grading rubric and example essays when writing your own so that you have an idea of what they are looking for. Also, It's best if you reference mostly academic and scholarly sources for your paper(as opposed to less reliable material found on the internet). A free membership to your local public library should provide you with sufficient access to their databases with scholarly journals and other legitimate academic sources.
1-10 Difficulty level: quizzes and final: 2-3
essays: 5(if you want to do them well, getting enough points for a passing grade: 2)
Provider: Study.com
Course: Finance 102: personal finance
Course content: typical SDC videos/quizzes
Final exam format: 100 multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: The final focuses mainly on the concepts. Very little in the way of math and calculations
Time taken on course: 2 weeks. This was my first SDC course and I was getting the hang of it. If I thought to take the placement exam sooner I could have skipped a lot more of the lessons and finished sooner.
Familiarity with subject before course: Been handling my own personal finances my whole adult life. Been investing and saving extensively for several years. Never felt the need to budget before, learn extensively about retirement concepts or file bankruptcy so those took a little bit of learning.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Don't worry if you struggle with math, calculating and using formulas. They take only a small portion of the final.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3
Provider: SDC
Course: History 108: history of the vietnam war
Course content: typical sdc quizzes and videos
Final exam format: 100 multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: a lot of final seemed to catch me off guard but I still passed with a high grade
Time taken on course: 1-3 days
Familiarity with subject before course: basic knowledge of history. I actually learned quite a bit about the material
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: If you are just listening to the audio, make sure you also look at how names are spelled. It can be confusing when you read a question and have no idea who they're asking about since foreign names can be tricky
1-10 Difficulty level: 2
Provider: SDC
Course: Library science 101: information literacy
Course content: typical SDC
Final exam format:100 multiple
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: going through the quizzes and videos is sufficient
Time taken on course: 1-2 days. It's very few lessons(like 40ish) and there is a lot of overlap if you do some english courses ahead of time
Familiarity with subject before course: Just finished an english course and I'm familiar with finding information on the internet
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: pretty straight forward
1-10 Difficulty level: 1 probably the easiest course from this provider
Provider: Math 104:calculus
Course: SDC
Course content: typical videos and quizzes
Final exam format: 70 multiple choice questions
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: The final exam emphasizes the concepts more than doing actual math. This makes it probably a little easier to pass. Makes it difficult for myself to judge if I adequately learned 1st semester calculus material, though. Don't bother printing the formula sheet, I don't think I even used it once on the final besides as extra scratch paper. The few formulas I needed and couldn't remember weren't on it.
Time taken on course: I flew through the first 48% rather quickly but slogged through the last half over a course of 2 weeks.
Familiarity with subject before course: I've always been pretty good with math. have taken precalculus and touched on a lot of calculus material in previous classes. All of these classes were 6-10 years previous, though. Definitely had to review a lot of it especially trig.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: A LOT of the questions were wrong or stupidly worded. Almost none of the quiz or practice test questions have answer explanations so that is a TREMENDOUS problem if you are trying to learn what you did wrong. Often times I would watch a lesson, follow along with the practice questions and have a great understanding of it all, then completely fail the quiz. So I rewatch, redo all the practice questions, pause, replay and make absolutely certain I understood it... then fail again. Then feel like i'm stupid and can't get it, have low self esteem, and guess my way through the quiz so I could get to the next lesson. Only find out that the info I needed to pass that quiz was actually in the next few lessons. So in the end, I didn't get adequate practice on the stuff I was trying to learn.
Long story short: this is NOT a good class for learning calculus. If you want a cheap/quick way to get calculus requirement out of the way, you should do ALL your learning ahead of time using Khan or another platform and essentially just use this SDC course as a way to quickly "test out" of it. Or just test out of it with CLEP.
1-10 Difficulty level: The material itself: 6(easier than a typical college calculus curriculum)
dealing their out of order issues and lack of explanations for wrong answers and many more issues: 9.5
Provider: SDC
Course: Statistics 101:principals of statistics
Course content: typical sdc
Final exam format: 70 multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: the final emphasized concepts over calculations and formulas
Time taken on course: 2 weeks
Familiarity with subject before course: pretty familiar with math in general before hand and a little familiar with statistics concepts
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I didn't bother trying to commit too many of the harder formulas to memory. I basically just took those as a loss and still passed just fine by a wide margin
1-10 Difficulty level: 4
I always recommend taking the practice final at least 1-2 times to make sure you know it all well enough before taking the final for all SDC classes.
Course: English 105: college composition 2
Course content: Typical SDC style. Watch the videos/read the transcripts and take quizzes
Final exam format: 100 questions multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: final exam was passable if you take all the quizzes
Time taken on course: You can go through all the lessons and study for/take the final within a few days to a week. The projects add some time to that. Depending on how good you are at writing essays, I'd say you can submit decent ones from a days work each. If you do well enough on the quizzes and final then you can submit essays with enough points to pass the course in a few hours each. Just remember that you can resubmit essays later to get a higher grade after you make corrections. One thing that I didn't consider until after I was done with the course is submitting "rough drafts" to get graded and then making corrections and resubmitting later for a better grade.
Familiarity with subject before course: This is first year english level material. I've spoken and read exclusively in english my whole life so I'm fairly familiar with this material.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Knowing how to properly cite sources in MLA and APA is probably the trickiest part. I'd recommend referencing the grading rubric and example essays when writing your own so that you have an idea of what they are looking for. Also, It's best if you reference mostly academic and scholarly sources for your paper(as opposed to less reliable material found on the internet). A free membership to your local public library should provide you with sufficient access to their databases with scholarly journals and other legitimate academic sources.
1-10 Difficulty level: quizzes and final: 2-3
essays: 5(if you want to do them well, getting enough points for a passing grade: 2)
Provider: Study.com
Course: Finance 102: personal finance
Course content: typical SDC videos/quizzes
Final exam format: 100 multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: The final focuses mainly on the concepts. Very little in the way of math and calculations
Time taken on course: 2 weeks. This was my first SDC course and I was getting the hang of it. If I thought to take the placement exam sooner I could have skipped a lot more of the lessons and finished sooner.
Familiarity with subject before course: Been handling my own personal finances my whole adult life. Been investing and saving extensively for several years. Never felt the need to budget before, learn extensively about retirement concepts or file bankruptcy so those took a little bit of learning.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: Don't worry if you struggle with math, calculating and using formulas. They take only a small portion of the final.
1-10 Difficulty level: 3
Provider: SDC
Course: History 108: history of the vietnam war
Course content: typical sdc quizzes and videos
Final exam format: 100 multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: a lot of final seemed to catch me off guard but I still passed with a high grade
Time taken on course: 1-3 days
Familiarity with subject before course: basic knowledge of history. I actually learned quite a bit about the material
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: If you are just listening to the audio, make sure you also look at how names are spelled. It can be confusing when you read a question and have no idea who they're asking about since foreign names can be tricky
1-10 Difficulty level: 2
Provider: SDC
Course: Library science 101: information literacy
Course content: typical SDC
Final exam format:100 multiple
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: going through the quizzes and videos is sufficient
Time taken on course: 1-2 days. It's very few lessons(like 40ish) and there is a lot of overlap if you do some english courses ahead of time
Familiarity with subject before course: Just finished an english course and I'm familiar with finding information on the internet
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: pretty straight forward
1-10 Difficulty level: 1 probably the easiest course from this provider
Provider: Math 104:calculus
Course: SDC
Course content: typical videos and quizzes
Final exam format: 70 multiple choice questions
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: The final exam emphasizes the concepts more than doing actual math. This makes it probably a little easier to pass. Makes it difficult for myself to judge if I adequately learned 1st semester calculus material, though. Don't bother printing the formula sheet, I don't think I even used it once on the final besides as extra scratch paper. The few formulas I needed and couldn't remember weren't on it.
Time taken on course: I flew through the first 48% rather quickly but slogged through the last half over a course of 2 weeks.
Familiarity with subject before course: I've always been pretty good with math. have taken precalculus and touched on a lot of calculus material in previous classes. All of these classes were 6-10 years previous, though. Definitely had to review a lot of it especially trig.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: A LOT of the questions were wrong or stupidly worded. Almost none of the quiz or practice test questions have answer explanations so that is a TREMENDOUS problem if you are trying to learn what you did wrong. Often times I would watch a lesson, follow along with the practice questions and have a great understanding of it all, then completely fail the quiz. So I rewatch, redo all the practice questions, pause, replay and make absolutely certain I understood it... then fail again. Then feel like i'm stupid and can't get it, have low self esteem, and guess my way through the quiz so I could get to the next lesson. Only find out that the info I needed to pass that quiz was actually in the next few lessons. So in the end, I didn't get adequate practice on the stuff I was trying to learn.
Long story short: this is NOT a good class for learning calculus. If you want a cheap/quick way to get calculus requirement out of the way, you should do ALL your learning ahead of time using Khan or another platform and essentially just use this SDC course as a way to quickly "test out" of it. Or just test out of it with CLEP.
1-10 Difficulty level: The material itself: 6(easier than a typical college calculus curriculum)
dealing their out of order issues and lack of explanations for wrong answers and many more issues: 9.5
Provider: SDC
Course: Statistics 101:principals of statistics
Course content: typical sdc
Final exam format: 70 multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: the final emphasized concepts over calculations and formulas
Time taken on course: 2 weeks
Familiarity with subject before course: pretty familiar with math in general before hand and a little familiar with statistics concepts
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: I didn't bother trying to commit too many of the harder formulas to memory. I basically just took those as a loss and still passed just fine by a wide margin
1-10 Difficulty level: 4
I always recommend taking the practice final at least 1-2 times to make sure you know it all well enough before taking the final for all SDC classes.
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(77CU transferred in)(44/44CU )
RA(non WGU)(57cr)
JST/TESU Eval of NAVY Training(85/99cr)
The Institutes, TEEX, NFA(9cr): Ethics, Cyber 101/201/301, Safety
Sophia(60cr): 23 classes
Study.com(31cr): Eng105, Fin102, His108, LibSci101, Math104, Stat101, CS107, CS303, BUS107
CLEP(9cr): Intro Sociology 63 Intro Psych 61 US GOV 71
OD(12cr): Robotics, Cyber, Programming, Microecon
CSM(3cr)
Various IT/Cybersecurity Certifications from: CompTIA, Google, Microsoft, AWS, GIAC, LPI, IBM
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