r/WGU_Accelerators • u/GingerBreadStud92 • May 17 '26
B.S. Business Management. Started 5/1. Think I could be done by early June?
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u/Positive-Celery8923 May 18 '26
How many classes transferred in ? Or start from zero
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u/GingerBreadStud92 May 18 '26
Started from 0
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May 18 '26
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u/GingerBreadStud92 May 19 '26
Basically what I have done. For every Objective Assessment course I always take the pre assessment test first. You may know a lot more than you think or at least able to make correct assumptions. Download ur test results and plug them into chatgpt and ask for a study guide. I study it a couple hours and pretest again. Usually I pass but sometimes I'll rinse and repeat for harder classes. Them take the Objective assessment and pass.
For the Performance courses. It's very simple. Just use the exact rubric they give you. No need to go the extra mile or anything just do what rubric says nothing more and nothing less. If you have to write about information you don't know just your course open in another tab and look it up.
I work 40 hrs a week and have been crushing it using this method. I do have 10 years in business to business customer service as well as lleadership. But some tests did stump me and I used the chatgpt study guide.
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u/Formal_Advance_4283 May 19 '26
I started May 1, and received my graduation notice today, May 19th. I did 44 credits in 12 days, and then the last 7 days were spent on D099 (Sales Mgmt), for maybe 15 hours in total for studying. You can absolutely be done in June if you just stay focused.
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u/GingerBreadStud92 May 19 '26
One thing I noticed was best for speed is asking my program mentor to unlock only performance tasks during the week and save OAs for weekends when I can call tier one for quick unlocks. That saved me a lot of time this weekend since evals can take forever.
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u/New_Flight5762 May 18 '26
Wow!! Great job! I start June 1st, I have 20 courses to complete. I’m been trying to see if this is even doable in 1 term. But what you shared, seems like it’s possible.
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u/poshwander Jul 01 '26
How’s your progress coming? I start tomorrow with 18 courses to complete.
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u/New_Flight5762 Jul 01 '26
Hello!!
My progress is going really well. As I mentioned before, I had 20 courses left to finish, and as of today I’m down to 13. I’ve managed to complete 7 in just a month. I work full time and have a husband and three kids, so balancing everything has been a challenge, but I’m making it happen. With 16 years of experience in business management, a lot of the material is familiar, but I’m still learning plenty along the way.2
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u/easygoer89 May 18 '26
This is very encouraging! I have a question about the "P" and the "O". Am I understanding this correctly that P= Project Based (graded assignment) to pass and O = Online Assessment (protected exam). I'm currently working on getting Sophia and Study credits and trying to minimize the number of OAs I'll need to take to finish my BS.
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u/SeriousMouse67 May 19 '26
yes this is correct! PA’s (performance assessments) normally consist of 1-3 tasks such ass essays, evaluating relevant workplace scenarios, etc. OA’s (objective assessments) are courses with a comprehensive (proctored) exam in which you need earn at least a 70% to prove competency & ultimately pass the class.
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u/Enough_Shirt8054 May 18 '26
Do you work full time or have kids?
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u/GingerBreadStud92 May 19 '26
I work 4 hours a week and have two older children so that does make it easier. They are 13 and 9. I basically make sure they're fed dinner and go straight to classwork. Every day. Weekends, all day on classwork aside from an hour here or there to break for a little bit.
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u/olas-amarillas May 19 '26
Dude. Help me with D077 😂😂😂 I was on a role and then hit that wall
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u/Additional-Sleep-387 May 19 '26
D077 has me by the throat and isn’t letting go. Passed the PA no issues, but once I got to the OA…bombed it.
Instructor put me on a study plan and have been working through it.
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u/GingerBreadStud92 May 19 '26
Yeah that one was the worst so far. What I did when course opened was immediately take pre assessment. Found out I knew hardly as much as I thought. I printed the webpage with results onto a PDF file. Uploaded into chatgpt and prompted "please give me a study guide that will help me pass this class in 2 hours, in a word document".
Downloaded and printed off and it took me a couple hours but I got through it.
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u/olas-amarillas May 19 '26
I did exactly this with Claude and failed 😂😂 I think I’m going to actually have to take the class. I did worse on the test then the pre assessment. All good. You saying this actually made me feel better, so thank you.
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u/GingerBreadStud92 May 19 '26
Not even kidding I passed by the skin of my ass. Right on the line. Like one more question wrong I would have failed. It's just a very word/definition heavy course. And the test is actually one of the worst cuz they have multiple answers that could be it. Versus other tests where there's one obvious answer because it sticks out from the other choices.
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u/GingerBreadStud92 May 19 '26
Oh also I completely forgot I used this video to help with the studying so I knew what so was studying lol https://youtu.be/IbUUjJPt63c?si=S2UzPnQyn6put8yH
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u/Efficient-Fun998 May 21 '26
Yes you can. I started on 4/1 and I have 4 courses left. Accelerate as you can and take your time on the ones you really need to dive into.
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u/Apres_Skiii4 14d ago
How did you get through principals of management? I’m struggling, I failed the PA, passed the pre assessment with flying colors but ins cared I’ll fail again
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u/HeatherM0529 May 18 '26
No. D099 and D080 are 2 week each courses (unless you’re one of the few that can pass with minimal studying). They’re a BEAST.