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Ok, so tomorrow morning I'm planning on subscribing to Shmoop for a month. I'm wanting to get as much as I can in a month. Just looking for some advice on the best way to tackle them. I'm kind of going in blind, I don't exactly know how Shmoop works. I have only really delt with study.com and Sophia.
These are the courses I plan on taking. I'm sure I can't get them all done in a month, just want to get as many as possible.
Algebra I
Algebra II
Introduction to film Studies
The Bible in Literature
History of Technology
Economics 101
Psychology 101
Human Sexuality
Accounting 101
Principals of Management
I also would like to take one of the science classes. Any suggestions to which one would be the best to take? I don't mean the easiest, but the one that is formatted the best.
Thanks for any input.
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I'm going to guess (not certain) that Algebra I & II, if you're not strong in math, might be hard to do in a month on top of everything else. It's just a subject that can take a lot of time if you're struggling with any of the concepts.
My advice for people is always to start with a free course like Khan Academy - and once you've worked through it, THEN to sign up with a credit-granting course like Study.com, Shmoop, SL, etc. If you're starting from scratch, it can take a while. If you're familiar with the material, you can really whip through it once you're paying for it.
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Thats a good idea to learn it all through Khan BEFORE the class. I wish I'd have thought of that before jumping into calc 1 on study.com
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I was a math wizz back in school over 20 years ago. Last math I took back then was pre-calculus in 10th grade. I took the fundamentals of algebra with Sophia course a couple weeks ago. Once my memory was jogged, I flew through it pretty quick.
I was curious about ways to study for shmoop courses. Should I focus on ideas, vocabulary, theories, or a mix? Should I know the exact facts or just understand the material? What I mean is say something was like a Bible class, should I know the story of David and Goliath or should I know exact passages and such?
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Shmoop courses require you to learn THEIR content. Don't count on many questions being easy to guess based on previous subject knowledge.
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you can do History of Tech and Bible as Lit in a day each. might as well go ahead and get them out of the way and on your transcript
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Ok so I am pretty sure one month is all I am going to be doing. Might not even do that. Working on the "24 hour free trial" now. Working on the history of technology. This really is as bad as other people say.
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My suggestion, save everything! Save every piece of information that they give you into a word document or a PDF. That way you can search through it if you need to. Even the answers to any quiz you take especially if you end up having to retake a quiz. Save the answers to the one you fail and then save the answers to the new one. The quiz questions make up a good chunk of the final. Last but not least, good luck with your grind.
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I have had an active Shmoop account for 1 month. I passed in a two week time:
Professional Writing
Business Communications
Bible as Literature
Economics 101
E Commerce
Introduction to marketing.
All of these sent over to Excelsior for the BSLA degree along with my SUNY transcripts. Shmoop is difficult with most of their literature courses. But their business, and math courses are relatively sstraightforward. 18 credits in 2 weeks. An entire term of credit. Saved me almost 5k in tuition.
Definitely worth it but choose wisely.
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