07-30-2020, 10:02 PM
Provider: Sophia.org
Course: Principles of Finance
Course content: Text
Final exam format: Multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: I think they were aligned well enough; I just didn't always understand the questions
Time taken on course: 1 day; barely passed
Familiarity with subject before course: Already had taken Sophia's economics & accounting courses; that helped with some of it.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: This is only 4 units long but it packs more actual info in than other 4-unit courses. It's a very bad idea to rush your way through this. You'll be doing math for various challenges/milestone questions and you really need to know which formula to apply. There's one I got wrong every single time it showed up and I don't know why; unlike other Sophia courses (like Statistics), the milestones don't tell you why you got a thing wrong. You got it wrong. The end. The challenges were relatively easy in comparison to the milestones; I only lost one point in the challenges but I consistently missed multiple questions in each milestone. This is undoubtedly partly because I rushed the material but it's also very heavy coursework.
1-10 Difficulty level: 9
Course: Principles of Finance
Course content: Text
Final exam format: Multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: I think they were aligned well enough; I just didn't always understand the questions
Time taken on course: 1 day; barely passed
Familiarity with subject before course: Already had taken Sophia's economics & accounting courses; that helped with some of it.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: This is only 4 units long but it packs more actual info in than other 4-unit courses. It's a very bad idea to rush your way through this. You'll be doing math for various challenges/milestone questions and you really need to know which formula to apply. There's one I got wrong every single time it showed up and I don't know why; unlike other Sophia courses (like Statistics), the milestones don't tell you why you got a thing wrong. You got it wrong. The end. The challenges were relatively easy in comparison to the milestones; I only lost one point in the challenges but I consistently missed multiple questions in each milestone. This is undoubtedly partly because I rushed the material but it's also very heavy coursework.
1-10 Difficulty level: 9
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