How fast (in how many days) can you realistically finish Sophia, etc. or WGU course?

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Most SDC courses can probably be completed in 1-2 weeks.

It can definitely be faster when optimizing for speed. Given that most courses have more than 500 quiz questions, the material is largely redundant, so I skip it. I spend most of my time on getting 100% within the first three attempts for quizzes and then go directly into the final exam without extra studying if possible. For any quizzes with four or more wrong answers on the first attempt, I add the questions to a text file to review before the final.

For WGU courses, I never opened any of their materials. I only took the preassessment to get an idea for the exam (objective assessment or OA), and then used outside materials to study, like Udemy or Quizlet. For papers/projects (performance assessments or PAs), I would scaffold them out from the requirements/rubric and fill in the blanks. It's low pressure because there are unlimited attempts for PAs, although I always tried to be fairly complete on my first attempt, so I only had a couple that were returned for small corrections.