HI,
This is my first post, I'm from Canada, and of course I'm looking to spend as little as possible and I have no prior credits. I've completed the three free courses from Sophia and The Institutes ethics course. There is a job opportunity that I'd like to pursue which has the requirement of ANY bachelor's degree. And I thought I'd get the easiest fastest degree, which seemed like it might be TESU BALS, having all those free electives. At the same time what I spend most of my waking hours doing is investing and reading about it so I thought a BSBA in GM or finance would be up my alley. So I jumped right into the SL Macroeconomics course. One prominent user here said he could do that in a day. Even though the coursework is reasonably familiar and I will pass the course, I think it could take me a month to do it, if I'm actually trying to cement the learning of the material and not chance failing.
Now, I think a macro course should probably take that long, but when you're paying a monthly fee to SL, the cost starts to quickly creep up. I also cannot see how many of the other courses needed for that BSBA wouldn't take as long or longer than my current course.
So the question is which are the outlier courses? The macro which would take me a month which is in line with 30 credits a year, or the ethics and sophia that can be done in a snap? (though I scored really high I took 3 1/2 hours to pass the ethics test)
Or is it that most of this forum and people all over youtube are hovering in the 200 IQ range to finish degree's in months or a year, or maybe I'm dumber than I thought.
Or are you just going about this differently. I understand the pass/fail grading, but I wouldn't want to risk failing and having to pay for the course again, and I'm not sure if the fail goes on your transcript. I tend to read and take tests slow, as I don't want to screw up, but then I see people studying for a few days to test out and getting lots of grades in the 50's, so maybe I'm just being a perfectionist...I dunno.
I'm just not sure that this path to a degree makes sense unless you can do it reasonably fast (and I'm not sure how people are racking up the credits they say they are unless they're going about things in a completely different way.
Sorry for the rambling post.Thanks for any input.
This is my first post, I'm from Canada, and of course I'm looking to spend as little as possible and I have no prior credits. I've completed the three free courses from Sophia and The Institutes ethics course. There is a job opportunity that I'd like to pursue which has the requirement of ANY bachelor's degree. And I thought I'd get the easiest fastest degree, which seemed like it might be TESU BALS, having all those free electives. At the same time what I spend most of my waking hours doing is investing and reading about it so I thought a BSBA in GM or finance would be up my alley. So I jumped right into the SL Macroeconomics course. One prominent user here said he could do that in a day. Even though the coursework is reasonably familiar and I will pass the course, I think it could take me a month to do it, if I'm actually trying to cement the learning of the material and not chance failing.
Now, I think a macro course should probably take that long, but when you're paying a monthly fee to SL, the cost starts to quickly creep up. I also cannot see how many of the other courses needed for that BSBA wouldn't take as long or longer than my current course.
So the question is which are the outlier courses? The macro which would take me a month which is in line with 30 credits a year, or the ethics and sophia that can be done in a snap? (though I scored really high I took 3 1/2 hours to pass the ethics test)
Or is it that most of this forum and people all over youtube are hovering in the 200 IQ range to finish degree's in months or a year, or maybe I'm dumber than I thought.
Or are you just going about this differently. I understand the pass/fail grading, but I wouldn't want to risk failing and having to pay for the course again, and I'm not sure if the fail goes on your transcript. I tend to read and take tests slow, as I don't want to screw up, but then I see people studying for a few days to test out and getting lots of grades in the 50's, so maybe I'm just being a perfectionist...I dunno.
I'm just not sure that this path to a degree makes sense unless you can do it reasonably fast (and I'm not sure how people are racking up the credits they say they are unless they're going about things in a completely different way.
Sorry for the rambling post.Thanks for any input.
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