I want to take some of these FEMA independent study tests to get credits at TESC, because it is very cheap. Is there any way to pass these besides reading all of the material that they give you? It seems like an awful lot of material. If you want to get 10+ credits, you are looking at maybe over a thousand pages! I'm not looking at cheating, but maybe someone has some sort of digest, or guide to which parts of the reading are superfluous, or something like that...
A thousand pages of reading for 10 credits doesn't seem like a lot to me, actually. When you consider that for a typical 3 credit course at a bricks-and-mortar school, you might have to read a 300 page textbook (or 4 or 5 individual books) plus handouts/readers, supplemental readings, journal articles, etc., depending on the subject matter, 1000 pages for 10 credits seems pretty reasonable to me.
I took the PDS series of FEMA courses and didn't really READ all of the material. A lot of it is common sense stuff, or long expansions on simple concepts explained in sufficient detail at the top of the section. I skimmed the courses and only read in depth when the material seemed unfamiliar or particularly interesting (some of the case studies are pretty interesting) and finished them all in a couple of days, maybe averaging 1-2 hours per course. There is a lot of material but in each course a fair amount of it is supplementary, sample forms and checklists and so forth. Flev
