I just finished the U. Of Idaho Physics II independent study, which TESC approved for credit. I hadn't taken physics I or any math in 7 years, so it was difficult for me to say the least. I ended up miraculously with a B for the course.
My complaints with the course are that everything is snail mailed to the instructor. There's 4 tests that need to be proctored in person, and before each test there's 3-4 homework assignments that need to be mailed into the instructor. If you do everything as suggested in the course syllabus and wait for your homework grades before taking the tests, it will take you forever to finish the course, and forget about waiting for the tests to get graded before starting the next set of homework assignments. The tests are mailed back to U of I via business reply mail which takes forever. I finally ended up bringing a pre-paid priority mail envelope with me for the final and having them mail it in that instead.
After taking the course there is definite strategy that I developed that I wish someone had told me about. When studying for the tests, ignore the homework assignments, and don't study from the book. Just do the practice exams they give within the syllabus, some of the test questions are taken directly from the practice exams. Also the course is heavily curved so a 60-70% on the practice exams means your probably going to get a B on the test. The last thing is make sure you get 100% on all the homework assignments because they count as an entire test. And don't wait for any grades just continue to take tests and mail in assignments until your finished, if you wait for grades before proceeding you'll sit around for 2 weeks without doing anything.
My complaints with the course are that everything is snail mailed to the instructor. There's 4 tests that need to be proctored in person, and before each test there's 3-4 homework assignments that need to be mailed into the instructor. If you do everything as suggested in the course syllabus and wait for your homework grades before taking the tests, it will take you forever to finish the course, and forget about waiting for the tests to get graded before starting the next set of homework assignments. The tests are mailed back to U of I via business reply mail which takes forever. I finally ended up bringing a pre-paid priority mail envelope with me for the final and having them mail it in that instead.
After taking the course there is definite strategy that I developed that I wish someone had told me about. When studying for the tests, ignore the homework assignments, and don't study from the book. Just do the practice exams they give within the syllabus, some of the test questions are taken directly from the practice exams. Also the course is heavily curved so a 60-70% on the practice exams means your probably going to get a B on the test. The last thing is make sure you get 100% on all the homework assignments because they count as an entire test. And don't wait for any grades just continue to take tests and mail in assignments until your finished, if you wait for grades before proceeding you'll sit around for 2 weeks without doing anything.
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