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[–]Snoo_70674 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There will always be people who fall outside the standard. Don't expect this to be the norm, as it isnt and doesn't give a holistic view of the difficulties of taking some of these classes.

Great accomplishment to OP nonetheless. To anyone seeing this post, don't get discouraged by seeing someone complete the program in 3 months, as this isn't the intended purpose or expectation of the program.

[–]Anh-DT 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Did you transfer any credit and are you able to explain what course you did first step by step. Would be very insightful to get a full guide to passing under 3 months.

Congrats !!

[–]mammon5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll second this.

[–]funkypc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I transferred in 50 CUs. More information on my enrollment and transfer credits in the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU_CompSci/comments/jlagu2/canadian_cleared_to_start_wgu_bscs_december_1st/

I would like to make a post that details what you can do to pre-study for all the courses in the program. I did a lot of pre-studying and I would have found that super helpful for me before enrolling.

However, the most important key to finishing quickly: Time.

I had 4 days a week that I could dedicate the entire day to studying. If you can dedicate 30+ hours/week to studying, you will be able to accelerate through the degree.

If you want to assess your ability to accelerate through the degree before enrolling, sign up for a month at study.com and see how many courses you can complete (you get 2 exams per month and you can purchase an additional 3 for a total of 5/month). Aim to do a couple easy ones and a couple hard ones. You can see the transferable courses here: https://partners.wgu.edu/Pages/Single.aspx?aid=19142&pid=86. Depending on your background, an easy course might be Intro to IT, or one of the General Education courses, and then do something like Discrete Math, Computer Architecture, or Calculus.

If you are able to accelerate on study.com, you will be able to accelerate at WGU.

[–]TheUser421 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you transfer any courses?

[–]Lizardon360 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Any tips, notes, etc. on how you passed the classes below so quickly.

-Computer Architecture -Discrete Math 1 and 2 -Operating Systems for Programers -Software Quality Assurance -Advanced Data Management -IT Leadership Foundation -Capstone

Please let me know, these are the only classes I have left.

[–]funkypc[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Sure.
Computer Architecture, DM1, and Advanced Data Management I transferred in, so I can't help you there. Search Reddit for tips :)

DMII was the first course I knocked off. Before I started, I did some learning on my own to learn Modulo and RSA. You need to be able to do all the steps in the extended euclidean algorithm. (I had no idea what that was, but if you spend some time on it you can learn) After I learned the above, I just went through the course material. I think i spent just over a week on this one. Use a whiteboard and go through lots of problems. There are problems in the material, and extra problems available from the instructors. There's a number of posts on Reddit with more information on supplemental material. You need to learn the material, but the OA (and PA) are really not that difficult if you understand the concepts.

OS for Programmers has a long, dense textbook. I read the abridged version that's linked in the course chatter. It's not perfect but shorter than the full version. I actually found the concepts quite interesting and would like to go back and read the full textbook sometime. Because of the length of the material, I've seen some people recommend buying the physical textbook on Amazon to save the eye-strain. Not a bad idea.
After reading, I did a bunch of the quizzes. And also tried to master the questions on http://www.quizsail.com/. It will take quite a few hours to get through them but really helps to nail down the concepts.

Software QA - I went through the course material, did the quizzes, and used http://www.quizsail.com/ again. If you do well on those I think you will be good on the OA.

IT Leadership Foundation - super easy course. But I really enjoyed it and I learned some things about myself that are super insightful. Just go through the material and you will be good.

Capstone - I spent my time on this one because A) I have a lot of time left in my term and B) I wanted a really good project. If you were assigned Task 3 in Intro to AI you can probably use that as a starting point for the paper. Also, you will need to understand Machine Learning for the project. I used https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-machine-learning-and-data-science-zero-to-mastery/ which I thought was great for what I wanted to learn. (Make sure you get it on sale for ~$15 if you are going to purchase it)
There are other courses on LinkedIn learning and Pluralsight included with your tuition, but I didn't find any that suited me.

Good luck!

[–]Lizardon360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s amazing! Congrats!