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Provider: Study.com
Course: Math 108: Discrete Math

Course content: Text & Videos
Final exam format: 100 multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: Have you seen the information before in the course, or was it a total curve ball?
The course covers a lot of different topics from logic, graphs, probability, trees, matrices and so on, so it makes it difficult to really remember if the final exam had a bunch of curve ball questions vs if some of the questions were just topics that failed to really pick up on.

I made the mistake of taking the practice exam only once and I got overconfident because I scored a 90% on it, but after taking the final, I feel that the practice exam just pulled questions from a pool of topics that really stuck with me and had I taken the practice exam a few more times I would have had a more realistic idea of how I actually did. Similar to rachel83az, my final was also within 15% from my practice exam.

Time taken on course: Hours? Weeks? Days? About 2-3 weeks on it.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know:
The course covers a lot and as someone who ended up hating math in high school (because doing matrix algebra as the first class of the day as a freshman can do that to you) this is my feedback:

1. This was a fun course.
   
2. The parts that SDC does a good job on explaining will probably be the parts you will do good on or at least not struggle with much. For me it was Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Trees, Matrices, etc.
   
3. The parts that SDC does a really poor job on will make you extremely frustrated and make you want to just completely give up on. For me part of the Recursion & Advanced Counting was probably the most frustrated I've ever been as far as the course chapter goes within SDC. It was equivalent to how I felt with the Computer Architecture assignment frustration.
   
4. Where the discrete probability content could have excelled at for teaching probability of gambling, etc. It focuses a bit too much, e.g. chances of specific poker hands so you have to remember those specific details which if you don't gamble or play poker then it feels like you're wasting time. Sophia's statistics courses does a better job in my opinion on covering probability. The only reason I really focus on calling this out is the discrete probability chapter is the second longest chapter in the course. Graph Theory being the longest and the final will definitely cover either paths, circuits, etc but considering that chapter is the longest, it makes sense that it would.
   
5. Make sure you've taken a couple math courses before trying this, I don't consider myself a math guy, the last math course I took at a B&M college was Intermediate Algebra (so not even College Algebra) and a math course that covered some logic and converting binary to decimal & hex, etc. But after taking the 5 different courses on Sophia before starting Discrete Math on SDC, if you are able to spend some time and focus on it then I think it's completely doable. Points 3 & 4 is still a mess however. Do take a practice exam a couple times.
   
6. If SDC offered a Discrete Math 2 that focused a bit more on some interesting topics I would probably take it, I actually felt like they could have cut the discrete probability content in half and expanded more on the trees & matrices, I was actually a bit disappointed by how short they were in comparison.
   

1-10 Difficulty level: 5-6.