 This video is going to be about how you can get a BS in science education secondary chemistry degree at WGU in one year or less. WGU if you didn't know is Western Governors University and it's a college that allows you to get degrees at a much faster pace. So it's essentially an accelerated college also known as competency-based education. Now I have talked about this college extensively on this channel. It's a phenomenal option for a lot of people. It's not for everybody. Did make a video about it so definitely check that out right there. So this is going to be a very simple four-step process that I have used with many of my consulting clients. They have had phenomenal success. Typically I would make people pay for this because it's such valuable stuff but I am revealing this completely free to you the entire thing today. So if you appreciate that go ahead gently tap that like button and let's jump into it. And I've also included a cheat sheet which is going to make this entire process like 10 times easier. I'll put that down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. So go ahead sit back relax pay attention open up that cheat sheet and let's jump into it now. So first step you are going to go ahead and transfer in all of your existing credits to WGU. So you'd want to go ahead contact the counselor and let them know all the stuff that you've done your transcript etc. So the reason I say let them know all the stuff that you've done is because they actually accept a lot of stuff that you probably wouldn't expect. So for instance they might accept work experience, military experience, random little certifications and certificates that you may have to have taken for your job. And obviously they'll accept any AP, IB or college credits that you already have. So yeah go ahead transfer all that stuff in pretty self-explanatory don't do this step too fast because sometimes there are going to be a few extra classes that you didn't realize you could transfer in that you're able to and then once you've done that they're going to send you back a sheet that shows all the remaining classes that you have to take. Once you've gotten that back you're going to go ahead and move on to step number two which is you are going to go ahead and test out of many of the remaining classes and you're going to be doing this by taking classes from third-party companies. Now you might be wondering why do I need to take classes from third-party companies if WGU is so easy and it's a competency based model. Well the simple reason is because taking these classes from a third-party company is going to be faster, cheaper and easier. In fact a lot of these classes especially at the entry level you can knock out in a day and in some cases you can even knock out multiple classes in a day using these third-party classes. So the three companies that I recommend using are going to be study.com, Sophia.org and straighterline.com. Now these three companies are all great but my favorite one and other experts that I've talked to you on this subject's favorite one is study.com and the reason for that is because typically it's just easier, smoother, they have a better UI interface, the classes tend to be more entertaining etc. It's just a better overall experience. Now this particular degree is 41 classes which is quite a bit but even if you're working full-time, you have a family, you're very busy, you can very comfortably test out of one class per week right? So if you do the math there you can test out of a lot of classes in a very short period of time and like I said before if you have more time you can test out of them much quicker. Now if you look on the WGU subreddit there's lots of people who are giving advice on this and kind of giving their anecdotal experience so this person for instance for this particular degree says that you should also check out sailor.com so go ahead and take a look at that. This person here is telling a guide of how they can test out of 52 of the 129 credits before they even enroll in WGU and here's somebody talking about how one of the classes are extremely easy so definitely check out the WGU subreddits they are a great resource and then of course make sure you leverage my cheat sheet because that matches up all the classes at study.com, Sophia and straighter line with the classes you have to take at WGU and I'm going to be trying to update that cheat sheet as I go along as well so definitely check that out and we'll get into that in a little more detail here in a few minutes. So after you have tested out of as many classes as you can and you've transferred them into WGU, go ahead and move on to step number three which is you want to pre-study or pre-game the remaining classes right so you're going to have some classes left and what you want to do before you enroll right you're not enrolled at this point is you want to go ahead and pre-study these classes so the curriculum is pretty easily accessible and I also recommend checking out the WGU subreddit now there's a main WGU subreddit and there's typically a subreddit for the specific degree that you're trying to get so check both of them out and they are typically going to have strategies on there for how to study for and test out of these classes as fast as possible. Also check out the WGU Facebook groups because those groups can have really good strategies as well and people are typically a little more receptive if you decide to message them. There's also tons of free resources online like Khan Academy or YouTube if you're the textbook type of person you can order a textbook on Amazon for relatively cheap and there's also some really good cheap courses on Udemy you can take for academic type stuff as well so here's a person on the WGU subreddit who's giving some advice for a class and they talk about how Khan Academy, Socratic and Patrick JMT are great sources for videos and explanations so yeah definitely check out the subreddit very useful so after you've studied for it you feel confident you're going to finally move on to step number four which is you are going to enroll in WGU and knock those classes out as fast as possible. Now the reason why you're pre-studying for these classes and you're doing all this sort of thing is because your goal is to graduate from WGU as quickly as possible aka you're enrolled actually enrolled aka you're paying WGU for the shortest amount of time possible and it's very realistic to only be enrolled in WGU for one to two terms. Now each term they change the price typically but it's around like $3,500 or so so you can realistically graduate from WGU with a legitimate bachelor's degree for about $3,500 and one to two terms and in many cases there's grants and scholarships and people end up graduating with zero debt and if you don't believe me there's actually videos on the internet of people who graduated from WGU in like two months like my friend Josh and there's even people that graduated faster than that with certain degrees and by the way Josh graduated with a computer science degree which is probably the most difficult degree to get at WGU so if he was able to do a computer science degree with only two months enrolled I know you're probably much busier and all that sort of thing but you can still do this relatively quickly and very realistically if you're super busy you've got a family you've got a full-time job etc you can knock these degrees out in two years or less and that's pretty good considering the average bachelor's degree takes 5.1 years. Now if you are having trouble with a class while you're enrolled at WGU definitely contact your instructor they can be a great resource and I think a lot of the times people don't take advantage of that and this is especially true for more difficult classes like biochemistry or concepts of science and yeah you can seriously knock these classes out really quickly once you're at WGU if you have done the pre-study method so here is a reddit post from a person who went to WGU to get their teaching license and they felt like the education courses were great and they were prepared to teach so yeah WGU is a respected school it's ranked in the top 10% of schools nationally it's also regionally accredited and they typically tend to only give out degrees that have a high likelihood of getting you a job which I think is really awesome but yeah now we're gonna go ahead and go through step by step on how to do this process and I'm actually going to use the cheat sheet and take you through step by step an example of how you would do this all right so now we're in the cheat sheet and I will quickly go over this so on the far left you can see that this is the class id at WGU then you have the name of the class at WGU here then you have the amount of units here and finally in this cell you are going to have the study.com transfers so you know English 104 for instance matches up with English composition one and if you are able to test out using study.com English 104 then you can transfer that in for English composition one so the first step of course is you're going to go ahead and transfer in your existing credits so we'll go to this first tab this is an example oh and by the way you can just go file and make a copy if you want to do this for yourself but this is just an example so the ones that are crossed out of course are the ones that you would have transferred in in this example and as you see communications 101 art biology astronomy 101 math 101 etc so for instance maybe you took you know math 101 because you took like AP math and high school or AP calculus you also took AP biology so you were able to transfer those in and then you took one semester at a community college and that's how you were able to transfer in the other ones so you would go ahead and transfer those in you would get the list back from your counselor which is going to look very much like this so this is kind of basically a cheat sheet you don't even really need to wait for them and then you would move on to step number two which is testing out all right so you'd go ahead and test out of all the classes that you can at study.com oh and by the way I almost forgot if you want to save 30% on your first three months with study.com you can use the code Shane hummus during checkout if you appreciate all the hard work putting this together go ahead and use that at checkout you'll save some money and it'll also help the channel so I really appreciate that but yeah you go ahead you take these classes you transfer all of them in to wgu and then you would go ahead and move on to step number three which is you would take these remaining classes and you would pre-study them so you'd go ahead start pre-studying these classes and then once you feel really confident about your knowledge you'd go ahead and roll in wgu and knock these classes out as fast as possible now it is possible to knock all of these classes out in one to two terms especially if you use the pre-study method that's going to save you a ton of time a ton of money you don't have to quit your job you don't have to turn your life upside down and you can get yourself a fully fledged fully respected regionally accredited bachelor's degree online flexibly and that's wgu for you like I said before wgu is a phenomenal option for a lot of people out there it is not for everyone there are some pros and cons to wgu so I highly recommend you check this video out right here