Study.com info

[studyandpass5]

Hi everyone,

I will need to take a few study.com courses; I've never taken a study.com course before. How does it compare to Straighterline? Are the quizzes open book? Are the finals open book? I know they're proctored. How much will it cost to take 1 study.com course? And will the membership keep going like SL until it's canceled? 

Thanks!

[TexasTink]

I haven't taken any SL courses so I can't compare. I can tell you that the finals are closed book. The quizzes could be open if you had them in a different tab. You can pull up the answers after the first attempt and either just remember them or have them open in another tab. You can get the Guardian Scholarship and get 2 tests each month for 3 months for free. (The downside is that you can't take more than 2 so if you go through them quickly, it helps to have something else to work on.) Otherwise it's $200 per month which includes 2 exams, and you can take additional exams in that month for $70 each. I'm in my last month of the scholarship so I don't know how the membership payment works yet.

[dfrecore]

Quizzes are open book, finals are not.

It's the same price for 1 exam as 2 - the $199/mo price includes 2 exams. Also, unlike SL, you're paying for a month, and not per course, so you can actually take multiple courses in a month - you just can't take more than 2 final proctored exams. So you could take CLEP prep courses that aren't credit bearing, or multiple courses that are similar (let's say Intro to Marketing, Digital Marketing, and Applied Marketing) or whatever you want. Things like that have overlap, and sometimes you'll even find that once you complete a course, other similar courses already have a good % completed.

And yes, if you don't cancel membership, it charges your CC the next month.

The one major downside of Study.com - once your membership expires, you can't look at anything on your account. So no access to which courses you've taken or where you are in them (if not complete), no access to completed courses and the date you finished them or what your score was, no access to what % of new courses you've already completed due to overlap, etc. I've complained, but it's just something they haven't added, and it sucks. It's a pretty major drawback.

[studyandpass5]

I haven't taken any SL courses so I can't compare.  I can tell you that the finals are closed book.  The quizzes could be open if you had them in a different tab.  You can pull up the answers after the first attempt and either just remember them or have them open in another tab.  You can get the Guardian Scholarship and get 2 tests each month for 3 months for free.  (The downside is that you can't take more than 2 so if you go through them quickly, it helps to have something else to work on.)  Otherwise it's $200 per month which includes 2 exams, and you can take additional exams in that month for $70 each.  I'm in my last month of the scholarship so I don't know how the membership payment works yet.

I've actually looked into the Guardian Scholarship and emailed someone about it, but she said they currently weren't offering it. Is this something that they bring back frequently?

[allvia]

I haven't taken any SL courses so I can't compare.  I can tell you that the finals are closed book.  The quizzes could be open if you had them in a different tab.  You can pull up the answers after the first attempt and either just remember them or have them open in another tab.  You can get the Guardian Scholarship and get 2 tests each month for 3 months for free.  (The downside is that you can't take more than 2 so if you go through them quickly, it helps to have something else to work on.)  Otherwise it's $200 per month which includes 2 exams, and you can take additional exams in that month for $70 each.  I'm in my last month of the scholarship so I don't know how the membership payment works yet.

I've actually looked into the Guardian Scholarship and emailed someone about it, but she said they currently weren't offering it. Is this something that they bring back frequently?

I don't know who you emailed, but people have been awarded it as recently as last month - here is the link to apply (check your junk folders for at least a month after applying - that is where my notice ended up last year when I received it).  There are threads specifically about it if you search the forum.

https://study.com/blog/guardian-s-person...rship.html

[studyandpass5]

I haven't taken any SL courses so I can't compare.  I can tell you that the finals are closed book.  The quizzes could be open if you had them in a different tab.  You can pull up the answers after the first attempt and either just remember them or have them open in another tab.  You can get the Guardian Scholarship and get 2 tests each month for 3 months for free.  (The downside is that you can't take more than 2 so if you go through them quickly, it helps to have something else to work on.)  Otherwise it's $200 per month which includes 2 exams, and you can take additional exams in that month for $70 each.  I'm in my last month of the scholarship so I don't know how the membership payment works yet.

I've actually looked into the Guardian Scholarship and emailed someone about it, but she said they currently weren't offering it. Is this something that they bring back frequently?

I don't know who you emailed, but people have been awarded it as recently as last month - here is the link to apply (check your junk folders for at least a month after applying - that is where my notice ended up last year when I received it).  There are threads specifically about it if you search the forum.

https://study.com/blog/guardian-s-person...rship.html

Thanks for providing the link! I'll definitely look into it and see if I can apply. I emailed Study.com on May 21st. If the scholarship is awarded every month, I'm wondering if that's what he means by "it has recently come to an end." This was his reply:

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out to us! Unfortunately the Guardian Scholarship has recently come to an end. I apologize for the inconvenience. 

Please continue to check back with us for different opportunities down the road.


Best regards,
Dominique
 
The Study.com Team

[icampy]

How have they still not made your account available after your subscription ends, that is ridiculous. Every time I ended my subscription it was like "well, I'm pretty sure I remember finishing those 2 courses, so maybe I renew and can just knock the exams out".