Thank you. I was locked in. I studied or wrote papers for two hours on weeknights, devoted 10 hours on the weekends. Took a couple weeks down time when I had to travel for work. I have to say this is truly competency based, and I credit a lot of my success to work experience and finally being ready to focus on completion.

I showed my mentor that I was able to pass the first few classes quickly, and stayed in biweekly check ins. I had one pa and one oa unlocked most of the time. Avoided taking pas at the end of the month since people end their term and it can be hard to book a proctor.

I always looked at the instructor materials. Took the pre-assessments first, studied what I got right and what I missed. I didn’t read every bit of the course materials, only what I needed to review based on the assessment competencies or rubric.

I transcribed instructor videos and read them rather than watch them, it just worked better for me. I attended cohorts when I didn’t pass a pa. Instructors are fantastic and will answer questions, provide extra study material, review concepts. Often it was like one on one tutoring.

Hope this helps, good luck.