Community College -> SNHU BS CS [Help Mapping Alt Courses]

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Saylor is MUCH harder than CLEPs.

Are the courses themselves more difficult or longer? Or both? Or are the tests harder?

Though not an exact percentage, you can pass a CLEP by only correctly answering around 50% of the questions. With Saylor, it must be 70%, and there are many gotcha questions with Saylor.

Modern States will take some time to earn the free CLEP voucher.

Is this because the courses themselves are long?

You can get through a course faster if you watch videos at 2x speed. You need 75% to earn the voucher, and they often give you multiple tries to get a question correct.

Often people here know more than the advisors of these colleges

I'm certain of it lol! I've has another account here from 2016 and never posted though (read only.)
I know this is the holy grail of forums about upskilling and leveling up.

if you have any questions, let us know.

Well, while I have you--
Could you recommend any other tools and websites useful for studying?
When doing most alt credit courses, they are self-contained where you don't need outsides resources which makes things simiple.

For CLEPs, I used a combo of Modern States, Instantcert, Quizlet, and Peterson Study Guides/Practice exams. If you can score 70% on a practice exam, you have a near 100% chance of passing the actual CLEP exam.

Grammarly pro is helpful when grades matter after you are enrolled in college. You can get a 1yr deal for $66.

How do you manage banging out course after course and learn/retain enough to pass and gain enough to build off for future courses? I hate to say it but I've found myself victim of the forgetting curve for long courses on campus. I've tried flashcards but I think I just have bad study habits. I put off honors but with great stress. Any suggestions?

If we talking about methods to getting Straight A's in college, then there are two ways to do this.
#1 Is a brute force method involving long hours of studying.

#2 Is a hack method leveraging efficiency.

The forgetting curve is a psychological concept that looks at how people forget information over periods such as a few hours, days, weeks, etc.

Mnemonics and spaced repetition can help with defeating the forgetting curve. However, when doing these alt courses, the best way is to jam the info in your head in a week or less, or else you will have to backtrack to relearn the information if you run into a challenging course.

Another method is to pretend you are a teacher and explain a course to someone who knows nothing about a subject. Try to do this in 5-10 minutes (1-page notes), and you'll have all the key concepts down where you can carry over your knowledge from course to course.

Overall, try to have some fun with this process and don't overstress. Be proud when you make mistakes because that's how you learn.