06-09-2018, 08:20 AM
My son has passed 5 Shmoop classes and is taking more, so I figured I will share his strategy in the hopes that it will help others. His goal was to pass as many courses as possible with as little effort as possible, while still learning something. He did not care if he did not pass certain classes, since there are other providers for most of them. So this is how he did it:
He looked at all of the classes and picked either ones that had few lessons (6 or less) or ones that he thought he was already familiar with the content or one that interested him. Then, he would pick a random test of the course and just did it cold. If the test had a bunch of errors, seemed overly difficult or was just dreadful for one reason or another, he would just drop the course at that point (Intro to Biology, Bible as Literature, Intro to physics). If he did not mind the test or the topic, he just did all of the lesson tests cold. That took about 1-2 hours. He did not take the final exam. For some classes, he got close to a passing score without even studying (E-commerce, History of Technology, Intro to Marketing, Principles of marketing, Business communications, Media Literacy). He ended up with a score of about 60-68% for most of these classes without studying. Then, he read all of the lesson readings for those lessons that he scored less than 70% (42 out of 60 points). He skipped all of the links. Then, he took the tests a second time. At that time, he had more than 70% for all of the courses. Then, he took the final. Did not take too long for those courses. He did not mind if he failed the course on the second time he took the tests, but that did not happen. He is currently working on Am Gov and Film Studies. Hope this helps someone.
He looked at all of the classes and picked either ones that had few lessons (6 or less) or ones that he thought he was already familiar with the content or one that interested him. Then, he would pick a random test of the course and just did it cold. If the test had a bunch of errors, seemed overly difficult or was just dreadful for one reason or another, he would just drop the course at that point (Intro to Biology, Bible as Literature, Intro to physics). If he did not mind the test or the topic, he just did all of the lesson tests cold. That took about 1-2 hours. He did not take the final exam. For some classes, he got close to a passing score without even studying (E-commerce, History of Technology, Intro to Marketing, Principles of marketing, Business communications, Media Literacy). He ended up with a score of about 60-68% for most of these classes without studying. Then, he read all of the lesson readings for those lessons that he scored less than 70% (42 out of 60 points). He skipped all of the links. Then, he took the tests a second time. At that time, he had more than 70% for all of the courses. Then, he took the final. Did not take too long for those courses. He did not mind if he failed the course on the second time he took the tests, but that did not happen. He is currently working on Am Gov and Film Studies. Hope this helps someone.
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