00:00in this video I'm going to be talking
00:01about how you can get a Science
00:02Education degree in as little as one
00:05year now this particular Science
00:07Education degree is going to be a
00:09bachelor's degree it's going to be a
00:10Bachelor's of science specifically and
00:13it is going to be secondary earth
00:15science and the way you get this is by
00:17going to a university that uses what's
00:19known as competency-based education and
00:21this is basically the opposite of
00:22traditional University where they make
00:24you go to four years of college whether
00:27the bachelor's degree is really
00:28difficult or it's easy they basically
00:30try to fit everybody into this four-year
00:32University model and for some degrees
00:34this totally makes sense for instance
00:36engineering degrees typically are going
00:38to take you at least four years to get
00:40but the average bachelor's degree in the
00:42United States of America takes 5.1 years
00:45on average and there are many bachelor's
00:47degrees out there that realistically
00:48speaking should not take that long and
00:51so if you are somebody who already has a
00:53lot of experience or you're somebody who
00:55just wants to go that extra mile and
00:56pass the classes as quickly as possible
00:58and be tested on your competency see
01:00rather tested on how much time you spend
01:02at the University then this can be a
01:04phenomenal option for you now the
01:06strategies that I'm going to reveal to
01:07you in this video up to this point I've
01:09only shared with my paid Consulting
01:11clients but the series of videos that
01:12I'm doing right now were highly
01:14requested and so that's what I'm doing
01:15I'm sharing this all with you for free
01:18and if you appreciate that go ahead
01:19gently tap that like button and let's
01:21jump into it alright so this is a
01:23four-step process and it's very
01:24important that you don't skip any of the
01:26steps you do this exactly as I say in
01:28this video there may be people that you
01:30talk to at the universities that you go
01:32to that tell you oh that's not necessary
01:34and you have to realize that these
01:36people sort of have a financial
01:37incentive to get you to enroll in the
01:39University as fast as possible because
01:41the universities will make more money
01:43that way so step number one is going to
01:45be go ahead and transfer in all of your
01:48existing credits now this does sound
01:50pretty straightforward but the great
01:52thing about going to competency-based
01:54University such as WGU and WGU is
01:57Western Governors University for those
01:59who aren't aware is that they tend to be
02:01very gracious about the credits that
02:03they accept so in some cases along with
02:05accepting all the usual stuff like AP IB
02:07classes any college credit you have as
02:11well as CLEP exams and other exams like
02:13that that you can take to test out of
02:14classes they also accept certificates
02:16and certifications work experience and
02:19sometimes military experience as well so
02:22make sure you get all of your
02:23information together get your transcript
02:24your resume your experience together
02:26send that into your enrollment counselor
02:28at WGU and they will tell you what
02:31classes you can transfer in you transfer
02:32those in and then you're going to get a
02:34list of classes left that you still have
02:36to take and at this point you are going
02:38to go ahead and move on to step number
02:40two which is the most important step and
02:43that is you are going to use third-party
02:45companies to test out of many of the
02:47remaining classes now for this
02:48particular degree it's going to be about
02:5039 classes to get your bachelor's and
02:53using these third-party companies like
02:56sophia.org or straighterline.com you can
02:59very comfortably test out of one class
03:01per week even if you're super busy you
03:04have a full-time job and a family if you
03:05have more time you can do it a lot
03:07faster than that especially with the
03:09entry-level classes in many cases people
03:11are able to test out of like one per day
03:13sometimes even multiple per day now the
03:15reason you're going to use these
03:16third-party companies and you're not
03:17going to just enroll in WGU right away
03:20is very simply because it's faster
03:22easier and cheaper right those are three
03:23pretty good reasons now my personal
03:25favorite to use is study.com followed by
03:28sophia.org and then the third best one
03:30in my opinion is straighterline.com but
03:32that could change in the future
03:33study.com is just the one that myself as
03:35well as other people I've talked to that
03:36are really good at doing this and have
03:37worked with a ton of different people
03:38doing this exact thing that's the one
03:41they have the least amount of issues
03:42with and it's just the smoothest now I
03:44do have a cheat sheet which makes this
03:46entire process super easy it Maps out
03:49the exact class you can take at
03:50study.com with the exact course that you
03:53might take at WGU for instance and you
03:56know you can use other schools as well
03:58you can kind of just replace it if you'd
03:59like like in that cheat sheet I will put
04:01down in the description as well as the
04:02pinned comment below so definitely check
04:04it out now once you've tested out of all
04:05these classes of course you're going to
04:07transfer them into WGU or whatever
04:09competency-based University you are
04:10going to and then you're going to move
04:12on to step number three which is you are
04:14going to pre-study the remaining classes
04:17now this is the step that so many people
04:19Skip and I highly recommend not skipping
04:22this step the two resources you really
04:24want to leverage in order to figure out
04:26the best ways to study for the remaining
04:28classes are going to be the WGU
04:29subreddit and WGU Facebook groups on
04:32both of these resources there are a ton
04:34of people that are doing the exact same
04:36thing that you're doing and there are
04:38specific subreddits and Facebook groups
04:40for the specific degree that you're
04:42going to try to get as well so these are
04:43people who are in the trenches they
04:45either just took the classes or they're
04:47currently taking the classes and they
04:48share tips tricks strategies and ways to
04:51pass the test as fast as possible so
04:53highly highly recommend that a lot of
04:55the time they will tell you like hey
04:57this YouTube channel is really good or
04:58this blog is really good good sometimes
05:00they'll recommend Khan Academy
05:03udemy can have some really good cheap
05:04classes as well there's free textbooks
05:07online there's paid textbooks online you
05:09can order physical textbooks in real
05:11life for relatively cheap on amazon.com
05:13so yeah there's a lot of good resources
05:15for this but definitely leverage those
05:17two that I talked about the WGU
05:19subreddits and the Facebook groups now
05:21if you're super busy you don't want to
05:23study all the classes at least study the
05:25harder ones right and again that's
05:27something that they will share on those
05:28two resources that I recommended now the
05:30reason that you are pre-studying is
05:32because WGU is going to make you pay per
05:35term and each term is six months and
05:38each term costs around thirty five
05:40hundred to four thousand dollars
05:41depending on the degree that you're
05:43getting so for instance let's say you
05:45took two terms and unfortunately you
05:47still have like three classes left and
05:49it's only going to take you an extra
05:51month to finish those three classes well
05:53unfortunately you have to pay for an
05:55entire another term right so you would
05:57have to pay for three terms instead of
05:59two and that's why pre-studying is so
06:01important so you don't find yourself in
06:03that situation where there's only a few
06:05classes that you have to take and you
06:06have to pay for an entire another term
06:08so at this point once you've pre-studied
06:09you feel confident and you have a good
06:11plan going in and you think that you can
06:12try to finish it in two terms that's
06:14sort of the goal you're going to go
06:16ahead and move on to step number four
06:18which is you are finally going to enroll
06:20in WGU and knock those classes out as
06:22fast as you possibly can so this is
06:24where you'd go to your enrollment
06:25counselor pretty self-explanatory you
06:27tell them that you want to enroll and
06:29you would start taking the classes and
06:30get them out of the way as fast as
06:31possible again use the same resources
06:34WGU subreddit and the Facebook groups
06:36now realistically speaking in terms of
06:38the time you are enrolled in WGU it is
06:41very possible to finish this degree in
06:44two terms if you're super busy maybe it
06:46takes you three or four terms and the
06:48overall process with the you know
06:50study.com pre-studying Etc very likely
06:53you can do it in two years or less and
06:55in some cases people take this to the
06:57extreme and they're able to do it in one
06:59year or less now definitely leverage
07:00your WGU instructor they're going to
07:02assign somebody to you and you
07:03definitely want to be talking to them
07:05and especially get their help if you're
07:07taking like a more difficult class like
07:09earth science or pre-clinical
07:11experiences in science but yet you
07:13should be able to knock them out
07:14relatively quickly WGU is Competency
07:17Based there's tons of reviews online of
07:20people who have been able to knock these
07:21classes out pretty quickly and finish
07:23their degree in like one to two years
07:25sometimes even less so the overall
07:27strategy summary is going to be one
07:30transfer on your existing credits two
07:32pregame the courses using study.com
07:34three pre-study the remaining courses
07:37and then four enroll in WGU and knock
07:40those classes out as fast as you
07:41possibly can now I'm going to take you
07:43into the cheat sheet and we're going to
07:45go through this entire process step by
07:47step and just break it down and make it
07:49super easy all right so we are now in
07:51the cheat sheet and I'll just go ahead
07:53and go over this really quickly first
07:55thing you want to do is file and then
07:57make a copy so you can go through this
07:59process access yourself with your own
08:01unique situation the one downside to
08:04making a copy is basically if I updated
08:08this in the future so for instance let's
08:09say study.com comes out with a new class
08:12I update it it's not going to be on
08:15there if you make a copy so definitely
08:17make sure you check the original copy as
08:18well but you won't be able to edit that
08:20of course but over here on the left we
08:23basically have the class ID numbers at
08:26WGU and then one column over we have the
08:30course names at WGU and then I I just
08:33had to adjust that here we have the
08:35units for each class and then in this
08:37column this is probably the most
08:39important column by far we have the
08:41study.com transfers so just to make this
08:44extremely clear the English 104 class
08:48study.com0057 if you take that class you
08:51can transfer it in for English
08:53composition one and then we also have
08:55some straighter line classes that
08:57study.com doesn't offer and again in the
09:00future if there's any Sophia or
09:01straighter line classes that study.com
09:03doesn't offer or if they come out with
09:05other classes we will very likely fill
09:07this in also there are some classes that
09:10are a little bit easier at sophia.org so
09:12we're thinking about filling that in as
09:14well so yeah make sure you keep checking
09:16this in the future but I found that just
09:18keeping it simple and you know using
09:20study.com first and then sophia.org and
09:23then straighterline is typically the way
09:25to go but there are a few exceptions
09:26like with this straighterline.com class
09:28so let's go ahead and move through these
09:31and go into the very first step which is
09:33you're going to go ahead and transfer in
09:35your existing credits so in this
09:37particular case I'm not sure why the
09:40formatting is off there but in this
09:41particular case I'm just going to make
09:43this up of course let's say you took AP
09:44biology and AP math during high school
09:47so you're able to transfer those in and
09:49then you also took one semester at your
09:52local state college and you were able to
09:54transfer in Communications art and
09:56astronomy as well as this astronomy
09:59class too and I think the formatting's
10:00messed up on this I'll try to fix this
10:02before I actually post it sorry about
10:04that but you'll go ahead transfer those
10:06classes in then you'll move on to phase
10:08number two which is the test out phase
10:10and this is where you test out of all
10:12the classes that you can test out of
10:14using study.com straighterline and
10:17sophia.org now one thing I will mention
10:20um generally speaking the green classes
10:22tend to be relatively easy the yellow
10:24classes are a little harder and then the
10:26red classes are the hardest ones but
10:28that's just generally speaking it's not
10:31always true but with that being said
10:32once you transfer these classes in it's
10:35going to look something like this this
10:36is basically the sheet that they would
10:38give back to you or very similar to that
10:40so you basically don't even need to wait
10:41for it you can just look at this and you
10:44would go ahead and move on to phase
10:45number three which is the pre-study
10:48phase so you would pre-study all of
10:50these classes preferably and if you
10:53don't have much time you would pre-study
10:54maybe some of the more difficult ones
10:56and then once you feel confident you
10:58would move on to phase number four which
11:00is you would enroll in WGU and knock
11:02these classes out as fast as you
11:05possibly can then you'd go ahead bragged
11:07all your friends family Etc that you are
11:10a genius and you were able to knock out
11:12an entire bachelor's degree in one year
11:14and hopefully if you're nice you'll go
11:16ahead and share this video with them so
11:18that they can know how to do that as
11:20well now like I said before WGU is a
11:23great University but there's two things
11:24I want to mention really quickly the
11:26first thing is there are other
11:27Competency Based or accelerated
11:29universities where you can use these
11:31similar methods and I talk about this in
11:33other videos on my channel and then the
11:35second thing is competency-based
11:37education is awesome but it's not for
11:39everybody so there are going to be pros
11:42and cons of going to a school like WGU
11:45and I talk about that quite a bit on the
11:46channel as well but obviously one of the
11:48things is it's completely remote so if
11:50you have trouble studying remotely at
11:52your house probably not the best thing
11:54for you another thing is the network is
11:56going to be relatively weak because it's
11:57not in person so if you want to know all
12:00the pros and cons of WGU as well as
12:02alternatives to WGU other really good
12:05competency-based universities check this
12:07video out right here because I go into
![Welp, Here's what the Fed *Just* Said [Fed FOMC Minutes]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fl8u23oq1E9E%2Fhqdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
