Upset over the Institutes Insurance Ethics Course

[a2jc4life]

I see you've already passed, so this might be unnecessary input, but...it's also totally okay to NOT consider it a waste to pass something up just because it's "free" credit. Just because it doesn't cost money doesn't mean it doesn't cost time or effort (or sanity ). It's okay to decide a course is not worth one or more of those OTHER things to you, even if the trade-off doesn't make sense to anyone else.

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Good morning everyone, I just wanted to update you guys and let you know that I passed the Insurance Ethics course late last night. I wasn't going to sleep until I passed haha. My best score was 78%, which I'm pleased with. Thank you to Merlin, TexasTink, douknowme40, Linda, bjcheung77, and dfrecore. The encouragement from you guys really helped me.

Congrats! Sticking with it is the best way to win. Glad I could help encourage you.

People have the same problem with Personal Finance. Most of the regulars here are more "established" and have been dealing with loans, mortgages and investments for years, so think it's easy. When a student fresh out of high school takes it, it's all new to them and a little confusing. There's also the phenom of math people thinking various math courses are easy, good writers thinking the courses that take lots of writing are easy, tech people thinking CIS courses are easy, etc... That's why I cringe a little when people ask for the "easiest" test or course. It's all relative to your existing knowledge and aptitudes.

Yeah, I hate it when people brag about how quickly they get through stuff, as it sets an unreasonable expectation for people who aren't necessarily as quick or don't have the baseline knowledge to more easily get through a course. It may also discourage people who are struggling from speaking out to ask for help in fear of being thought of as less.

In any case, even the easy courses aren't always easy. I'm one of the more "established" folks, and there were parts of the Personal Finance course that threw me for a loop. Yes, it was one of the courses I got through more quickly (which was nice since it was my first Study.com course and that was very encouraging) but it certainly wasn't a few hours or even a few days to finish it for me.

The math phenoms are usually the ones that get under my skin. Despite having a tech and software background, I suffer from dyscalculia, so I struggle with some fundamental elements of math. This makes learning higher forms of math brutal for me, particularly since I forget math almost as fast as I learn it if I'm not constantly reinforcing my knowledge by putting it to use. It takes me forever to get through any math course since every time I feel like I have to start over at the basics and work my way up. As such, I tend to budget a month for a single math course, just because I know it will be time-consuming for me. I'm currently going through the Khan Academy Statistics material, which luckily has a good amount of theory in addition to the math itself, so I'm feeling pretty good about getting through it well enough to pass a course somewhere later this month, but some of the math has been pretty hairy so far.

Man, I hear you on this.  Math is so not my thing.  On my ALEKS course, I didn't even have the mathematical foundations section down initially.  In fact, it took me at least three tries to master the basic graphing -- and keep it mastered -- that I'm 100% positive I already learned back in high school.  It just wouldn't "stick."   If you haven't finished the stats stuff, take a look at APStatsGuy's (@MrNystrom) stuff on YouTube, too.  He doesn't cover everything, but his videos are AMAZING (even better than Khan Academy).