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Shmoop strategy - homeschoolmom1 - 06-09-2018
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.
RE: Shmoop strategy - frank.f.franky - 06-09-2018
Sounds like a good plan, until the all of the Big Three find out, in Shmoop classes you'll learn little.
RE: Shmoop strategy - dfrecore - 06-09-2018
This is the kind of post that makes me think that more of the Big 3 than just TESU will stop taking Shmoop credits.
RE: Shmoop strategy - homeschoolmom1 - 06-09-2018
Back to the discussion of "testing out" versus "learning a lot" with all of those courses we talk about here. Actually, he said that he learned a good bit with this strategy while minimizing unnecessary busywork. He found History of Technology especially fun and informative. For the ones that he scored over 65% without studying, one can argue that he already knows a lot about those topics and took Shmoop like a cheap way of testing out. Not much different from taking a CLEP exam cold, imo.
RE: Shmoop strategy - maplefu - 06-10-2018
Good point.
I'm looking forward to getting to know when TESU and others universities to accept credits from Shmoop again.
RE: Shmoop strategy - dfrecore - 06-10-2018
(06-10-2018, 05:05 PM)maplefu Wrote: Good point.
I'm looking forward to getting to know when TESU and others universities to accept credits from Shmoop again.
TESU is the only one of the Big 3 that doesn't accept Shmoop credit. COSC and EC never stopped.
RE: Shmoop strategy - maplefu - 06-10-2018
(06-10-2018, 06:10 PM)dfrecore Wrote:(06-10-2018, 05:05 PM)maplefu Wrote: Good point.
I'm looking forward to getting to know when TESU and others universities to accept credits from Shmoop again.
TESU is the only one of the Big 3 that doesn't accept Shmoop credit. COSC and EC never stopped.
Thanks dfrecore,
Do you have any degree plans for Cyber Security program or other bachelor degree rom COSC?