Study.com Course Format

[Merlin]

Hi everyone,

I recently completed my 27th course with Straighterline (took me about 2.5 months) and now getting into Study.com courses. My question is, how are you guys getting through these courses so quickly? I am currently taking Principles of Marketing and this course have 94 lessons and 83 quizzes  . i spent the last 3 hours watching videos, reading transcripts, and scanning the lessons and I was only able to complete 9 quizzes, given I am scoring 100 on them. Maybe I am having withdrawals from Straighterline courses and their course format. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Is there another course site equivalent or similar to Straighterline's course format?

Thanks in advance,
K

If you're able to get through the Straighterline courses that quickly, you should have no trouble with Study.com. I found I was taking about 2 weeks per SL course where it only took about a week per course on average via SDC since the reading is so much more focused (and there is generally less of it). Yeah, you have more quizzes, but they go really quickly.

As someone who completed about 20 courses with SDC, here is my perspective:

• The best way to accelerate through the SDC courses is to have prior experience or knowledge in the subject.
  
• It is also recommended that you take the pre-test (if available) which will help to complete large sections of the quizzes in advance. It's best not to guess here though, otherwise, you may end up having issues on the final. For some of the courses, taking the chapter or practice final exams in advance will also mark sections of the quizzes complete, so that is another option if there is no pre-test available.
  
• Another best practice is to order your courses so you end up overlapping on course materials so you come into a new course with some of the quizzes already marked complete.
  
• When it comes down to studying new material, if you're a fast reader you should ignore the videos and just read the text summaries. Once you've finished the text summary the quizzes are usually pretty easy.
  
• Once you're done with all the quizzes it's generally a good idea to take the practice final exam to identify any gaps in your knowledge, but not required of course.
  
• After that you should be set to take the final exam.
  

If a course requires projects or papers, you can defer those until after the final exam is done for efficiency. Though if you score high enough between the quizzes and final exam, you may not have to do much work on the papers to pass, and if a course has multiple papers you may not have to turn them all in once you hit the 70% mark to earn credit.

For easier subjects or those you're more familiar with, you should be able to blaze through a course in a few days, for harder ones, it might be a week or two, but there aren't many of those. In my last couple of months with SDC, I was completing 5-6 courses per month with scores in the mid-90's.