Study.com - Course Progress? Is this normal??

[rlw74]

I echo what is said in all the previous posts. The most it ever took me was a week, some a few days.
Here were my techniques.
1. I mostly speed read through stuff and remember it. If I watched videos I listened to them at 3xs the speed on auto play and took all the quizzes at the end.
2. I never studied for the exams - just took the practice finals. The first couple courses I was taking notes, all the chapter quizzes, flashcards etc. I figured out pretty quick that if you score decently on quizzes you only need 55% on finals and that's barely half of the material. So I stopped stressing and just plugged away at the quizzes. I never scored less than 80% as it was. The material is so repetitive.
3. I chose courses with lots of overlap.. You automatically get credit on quizzes if it was included in a previous course.
4. I took the assessments on any course that had them. That also reduced the amount of time.
5. Not a strategy really, but I already had background knowledge in most the courses. I probably could have taken the tests without prep.
6. I spent huge blocks of time on this when I did it. Not everyone has that time in a day but a year ago I easily could get in 8 hours in an average day. Now I would be lucky to get 2 hours in.
Just do what you can and don't set your timetable by anyone else. At the end of the day it's faster than any traditional course at a college and with each course you are one step closer to your goal.