Finished! Twenty-eight courses in one term.
Accelerated the Accounting Degree in one term, 83 CU’s. It is possible! No experience and working full time in an unrelated field. Luckily I have no kids, and was able to study a few hours a week at work during downtime.
EDIT: Just sharing what worked for me and answering some questions. Sorry for the length!
My amount of study time varied based on my completion pace. I set mini goals for myself for what courses I wanted done by the end of each month to stay on track to finish in one term. If I was lagging behind, I put in more hours. It’s hard to estimate, but I’d say around 20 hours a week on average. There would also be one- or two-day stretches where I would be too burnt out and didn’t study.
I would start each course by first searching the course on Reddit to see how other students had tackled it. Some courses, especially the early non-accounting ones, can be completed without even looking at the course material and instead using outside resources like a YouTube series or Quizlet. For other courses, there are recorded cohorts filmed by the instructor and posted inside the Course Community. Some courses, especially the accounting ones, you’re just going to have to dive into the course material/book. For the PA classes, there is a template for every PA that can be located in the course material. The templates give detailed instructions that make the assignments very easy to complete. I never had a PA task sent back for correction. All of this info was obtained by just reading other posts from students on Reddit. Twenty minutes of research and you’ll know how best to tackle each individual course instead of diving in blindly.
For the early accounting courses, the little videos in the course material with the red pen guy were invaluable, and he explained everything so well. Watch all of those videos and only read the course material if there’s content in the lesson/unit quizzes that he didn’t cover. I remember this being pretty rare. For the intermediate accounting courses, I basically did the opposite. Red pen guy is gone, and the videos are dry and unhelpful, so I skipped all of them. Instead of reading the dry course material, I copied and pasted each lesson into ChatGPT and prompted it to explain the material in simple terms. I would basically use it as a tutor, asking clarifying questions if I didn’t understand something. I would also post the quizzes and practice OA into ChatGPT and have it explain each question I got wrong or didn’t understand. ChatGPT was an invaluable study tool throughout the degree, but especially for the intermediate accounting courses. I paid the $20 a month for the pro version where it’s a little faster and smarter, but you definitely don’t need to.
Feel free to DM me if you have any specific questions, and I’ll do my best to help.