How long does TESU BALS take to finish from scratch?

[rlw74]

All of the answers above...just depends on a lot of factors and where you get your credits from and how much background knowledge you already have.
If you are studying to learn, it's going to take longer.
If you just want a bunch of credits fast there are methods for doing that with very little study time. I've heard of people on here just clicking randomly on the study.com quizzes without doing any of the lessons and going straight to the final exam cold. Same with shmoop courses - just taking as many tests as you can without reviewing the material and if you pass a course you get the credit, if you don't you just move on to the next course.
I personally never could do that. But I still went fast. I finished over 40 credits in 12 weeks. That was taking the time to read everything, study for exams and taking all the quizzes/practice exams etc. But I had a lot of free time and I already had a couple of decades of stops and starts at various schools, work experience etc. I did get a little burnt out just doing that much in 12 weeks. I didn't really sleep either. I had no life outside of family commitments and school. And I wasn't even starting from scratch - I already had almost 90 credits transfer over.
Can you finish in months? Less than a year? Maybe. But regardless, six months from now you'll definitely be a lot further long than you are now.