Upset over the Institutes Insurance Ethics Course

[terryd5150]

I really hate it when people say that a course/exam is SO easy, and they did it in 15 minutes and passed with like 90%!!  Instead, I try to preface what I say with WHY it was easy for me, personally, or whatever, to let people know that it might not be easy for them.  So when people ask "what's the easiest Study.com course?" or "what's the easiest CLEP exam?" I try to reply with "what are you good at?"  For most people, they're going to find a course or two easy, and some not so easy, and some really hard; and it's totally different for everyone which category each course/exam falls into.

Also, I find that some people are really good test-takers, and some aren't.  Also, some have tons of experience, and some don't.  That makes a difference.

So, if I were you, I would probably try again, this time going a bit faster, and not stress over it.  You may have OVER studied and just put way too much emphasis on it, and it backfired on you.  That test should not take 2 1/2 hours.

Excellent post.

I cannot stress the subtext of your message enough.

Posting about how quickly you completed a course only serves as a thinly-veiled attempt to call attention to yourself and boost your own ego ("Hey, everyone, I did this course in like 4 minutes. Look at me, I'm like all super-smart n' stuff").

The reality is, those types of posts only accomplish one thing: they succesfully get the course(s) in question downgraded by the schools themselves so that they'll no longer accept them as credit as part of a degree plan.

That's it. That's literally all that will happen. Your "humble brag" only served to make it more difficult for those that are walking the path behind you (FYI - the schools DO monitor this forum).

Additionally, I fully support dfrecore's suggestion on how to discuss course results; in fact, I would emplore the mods here to make such a post the required standard while deleting "5-minute credit"-type posts - issuing warnings to repeat offenders.

With the various backgrounds that we all possess, some courses will naturallly be easier for us - as individuals - than others.

It would be extremely helpful to others to post about WHAT in your background allowed you to have such a high degree of success in a particular course.

Some helpful ways to "mix-n-match" your way to this:

• Years of topic-specific industry experience
  
• Certifications you may have
  
• Related prior coursework (that may or may not have been completed)
  
• Non-credit/non-certification training you may have had
  
• Did a hobby you have help you understand the course concepts?
  
• High school courses you may have taken
  
• Openware/open-sourced courses you may have found relevant
  
• Any other previous exposure to course concepts that you found helpful
  

SInce we're on the topic of The Institutes' Ethics course, I'll post a relevant example of why I was successful in this specific course:

I'm 45. I've been employed in the same industry (manufacturing) since I was 19.

Every employer I've had included training in ethics and specific company policies for ethics as part of their new hire orientation package.

Many actually required ethics as an annual training topic.

So it's a fair statement to say that during my 26-year career, I've had considerable exposure to ethics training.

For this course, I carefully read through the opening commentary on morals, values, and ethics. I found that section well put-together and I actually learned some new talking points from that content - it provided a slightly different (and less dry) perspective on the fundamental concepts of ethics than my annual training.

For the pratical application section of the course, I was able to rely exclusively on my training and experience to carry me through - it was identical to my years of corporate exposure.

To summarize, I was able to combine considerable previous exposure with the take-away of a small amount of new learning to get through this course with relative proficiency - passing on the first attempt.

I would not expect someone straight out of high school (or not far removed) to simply breeeze through this course.

With that said, I'll end my rant; however, I would urge the mods to stongly consider the content of this post - and that of dfrecore's post that I quoted.