09-21-2020, 05:46 AM
Provider: Sophia
Course: Business Law
Course content: Text (PDFs or website) and/or a reading of that same text exactly; no videos
Final exam format: Multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: This course does not seem to be drawing from a large pool of questions. Although questions on the milestones were not quite the same as the ones on the practice milestones or the challenges, there were a lot of questions with near-identical wording. You will most likely have seen the question before but with slightly different wording. Read carefully.
Time taken on course: A couple of weeks
Familiarity with subject before course: I'd never studied business law specifically but I was vaguely familiar with the topic of trademarks/copyrights/patents/etc. before this course.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: This course does NOT explain why you got a particular answer wrong. If you're used to other Sophia courses, this aspect is extremely frustrating. There were a couple challenge questions I completely blew because I didn't understand what was wrong with the answers I gave. That said, I kept expecting this course to get a bit more difficult and it never did. The hardest part was writing the touchstone essay and even that was pretty easy.
1-10 Difficulty level: 4-5
Course: Business Law
Course content: Text (PDFs or website) and/or a reading of that same text exactly; no videos
Final exam format: Multiple choice
Final exam content vs course content/practice exams: This course does not seem to be drawing from a large pool of questions. Although questions on the milestones were not quite the same as the ones on the practice milestones or the challenges, there were a lot of questions with near-identical wording. You will most likely have seen the question before but with slightly different wording. Read carefully.
Time taken on course: A couple of weeks
Familiarity with subject before course: I'd never studied business law specifically but I was vaguely familiar with the topic of trademarks/copyrights/patents/etc. before this course.
Pitfalls, high points, things others should know: This course does NOT explain why you got a particular answer wrong. If you're used to other Sophia courses, this aspect is extremely frustrating. There were a couple challenge questions I completely blew because I didn't understand what was wrong with the answers I gave. That said, I kept expecting this course to get a bit more difficult and it never did. The hardest part was writing the touchstone essay and even that was pretty easy.
1-10 Difficulty level: 4-5
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