Student Experiences at Western Governors University (WGU)

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Ivanjam

@j23evan - know the elements and standards of reasoning as well as the fallacies, and:

kgb wrote: »

Watch their recorded webinars and actually sit in on a live one. I watched the webinars and sat in on one and asked a few questions.

Like you, I got 73% in my first attempt at the pre-assessment and 66% in my second. I brushed up my knowledge of the elements and standards of reasoning as well as the fallacies and watched all the webinars and ended up with 81% on the objective assessment.

@Hypntick - I'll send you a PM - thanks for the offer.

Richards90

@DACP I know how that feels, i felt the same way with my enrollment counselor as well. It took forever for my military stuff to get to WGU and my enrollment counselor could never remember what we talked about the previous weeks. Just like kgb said study up on any information that you want to knock out right away.

arwes

I passed the pre-assessment for WFV1 a few nights ago and my mentor said she never got the results. Have any of y'all had this happen? I really don't want to do that boring thing again. I emailed the course mentor to see what she says, but I don't see any way to look at my previous test scores.

Reseven

@arwes - On the My Degree Plan tab, under the Pre-Assessment column, is the View Report link there?

arwes

Nope, there's not even a link under the Pre-Assessment column. There's a Pre-assessment link for CLC1, I took it just to see how I'd do and got 71%. It's got the report link under it. But WFV1, LAE1, LUT1 and QBT1 don't have links in that column. In the course menu, under Preparing for Success and Take the Pre-Assessment it has the following info (which I completed):

The pre-assessment assesses your knowledge of the content covered in this course of study. Your performance on this assessment will help gauge your skills so far and help you determine which areas you need to focus on when studying for the exam..

Access Site Development Associate Practice Exams, click "Overview", and complete the following:

Web Foundations Associate Practice Exam

The Web Foundations Associate Practice Exam is a random selection of 85 questions similar to the official assessment. There will be 30 questions from Internet Business, 30 questions from Site Development and then 25 Network Technology. You will have 105 minutes to take the test. Note that you can review the questions you missed after you take the practice exam. The review portion will help you study any material you missed.

You can also take any of the practice exams, quizzes, reviews as many times as you need.

I found that if I go to that, then click the My Progress tab, it shows that I passed the Web Foundations Associate Practice Exam on 1/2. Hrm.

Reseven

Well, at least there's some visible proof that you passed it. I'd take a screenshot of that and send it to your mentor.

boredgamelad

Got my Capstone graded today! I'm one class away from finishing this thing off in a single term.

arwes

^^ congrats!!

@Reseven: Yeah, I sent her an email detailing how I found the score...I'm assuming she has access to our stuff on that site (at least she did during our first meeting). I just got an email back from the course mentor and she said that student mentors won't get a notice when the practice exams are taken. Soooo, how are they supposed to know we passed? LOL

Edit: Just got word from her that I'm good to go, so yay! Going to see about taking that test Monday.

KeithC

WFV1 pre-assessment is located in cert partners website under my progress.

CLC1 I finally passed on my third attempt. What helped me was talking to a knowledgeable course mentor . . . and not only learning the elements and standards but actually applying to different situations.

boredgamelad - how long did it take for the evaluation? I'm hoping to submit my capstone this weekend.

boredgamelad

My proposal paper was evaluated, sent back, and re-evaluated within 24 hours. The Capstone paper I submitted at 3 AM yesterday was evaluated and returned today at 1 PM. So, pretty quick!

KeithC

Awesome thank you. My technical writing only took two hours to evaluated for both submissions.

Ivanjam

@boredgamelad - way to go, my friend - good luck on the final frontier!

Santa_

Success! Just finished the Readiness Assessment..time to wait if I passed or failed.

DACP_tim

Santa_ wrote: »

Success! Just finished the Readiness Assessment..time to wait if I passed or failed.

Let me know how long it takes you to hear back. I took mine Dec 22nd and haven't heard anything yet. All 4 sections have a green check mark but haven't heard any scores or anything yet.

arwes

They're not going to give you any scores, at least my counselor didn't. He just said I was good to go, and started moving me further along the enrollment process.

geekoncall

Not to scare you but my personal experience only, Green Check Mark was a fail. Usually, when we get green check mark, we are unable to re-take assessment which automatically puts us on wait for 3 months. I see you took your assessment on 22nd Dec, that was begining of holiday season, usually if we fail, we get email within 2-3 days with results and reason of failure. As you haven't got email, so personally I think you are safe.

I failed on first attempt, in writing part and got email within 48 hours with my results that I didn't make into writing and now must wait 3 months. I re-attempted after 3 months, I completed all 4 parts but didn't get any green check mark and than after 3 days, I got email from enrollment counselor that I passed assessment. I still have without green marks, something like I can re-rake any part, not sure if its same for everyone , but just wanted to share my own experience.

Good luck.

DACP_tim wrote: »

Let me know how long it takes you to hear back. I took mine Dec 22nd and haven't heard anything yet. All 4 sections have a green check mark but haven't heard any scores or anything yet.

pixa241

geekoncall wrote: »

Not to scare you but my personal experience only, Green Check Mark was a fail. Usually, when we get green check mark, we are unable to re-take assessment which automatically puts us on wait for 3 months. I see you took your assessment on 22nd Dec, that was begining of holiday season, usually if we fail, we get email within 2-3 days with results and reason of failure. As you haven't got email, so personally I think you are safe.

I failed on first attempt, in writing part and got email within 48 hours with my results that I didn't make into writing and now must wait 3 months. I re-attempted after 3 months, I completed all 4 parts but didn't get any green check mark and than after 3 days, I got email from enrollment counselor that I passed assessment. I still have without green marks, something like I can re-rake any part, not sure if its same for everyone , but just wanted to share my own experience.

Good luck.

All mine had green check marks and I am good to go?

Codyy

DACP_tim wrote: »

Let me know how long it takes you to hear back. I took mine Dec 22nd and haven't heard anything yet. All 4 sections have a green check mark but haven't heard any scores or anything yet.

Give them a call, they'll be able to tell you whether you passed or not within minutes.

geekoncall wrote: »

Not to scare you but my personal experience only, Green Check Mark was a fail. Usually, when we get green check mark, we are unable to re-take assessment which automatically puts us on wait for 3 months. I see you took your assessment on 22nd Dec, that was begining of holiday season, usually if we fail, we get email within 2-3 days with results and reason of failure. As you haven't got email, so personally I think you are safe.

I failed on first attempt, in writing part and got email within 48 hours with my results that I didn't make into writing and now must wait 3 months. I re-attempted after 3 months, I completed all 4 parts but didn't get any green check mark and than after 3 days, I got email from enrollment counselor that I passed assessment. I still have without green marks, something like I can re-rake any part, not sure if its same for everyone , but just wanted to share my own experience.

Good luck.

I'd say this is just a coincidence that you didn't have the green check marks the second go around and passed. I took my tests on like the 30th, all have green check marks, and I confirmed yesterday on the phone that I passed the readiness assessment. I mean think about it, a green check mark equaling fail doesn't make much sense anyway.

geekoncall

Agreed, this is what I said in my post that I am not sure if its gonna same for all ( that was my personal experience that I got green check marks and failed but than I passed and still there no green check marks lol), so after reading your post, it's for sure something particular, maybe a system error etc in my case. But speaking generally, having green check marks means we are done, because we have only one chance to try, either fail or pass. Once we get green check marks, that means we are done with our "try" and now either we pass or fail, we will get confirmation.

I will fully agreed to give them call, best way to know the status of assessment.

Good luck.

Codyy wrote: »

Give them a call, they'll be able to tell you whether you passed or not within minutes.

I'd say this is just a coincidence that you didn't have the green check marks the second go around and passed. I took my tests on like the 30th, all have green check marks, and I confirmed yesterday on the phone that I passed the readiness assessment. I mean think about it, a green check mark equaling fail doesn't make much sense anyway.

phaneuf1

Am I the only one who have yet to open a book at WGU (except for the it certs). I passed all the objective and performance assessments without reading anything. Multiple choices exams are just too easy in my opinion. I'm under the impression that in a Normal school, I would have failed big time!

Hypntick

Generally most of the assessments etc. can be passed without cracking a book if you have a basic understanding of the subject matter. However if you're just going through trying to pass the assessment without absorbing anything, are you really getting anything out of the class? Not saying that everyone really needs some of the classes provided, however you're paying for them, may as well make the most of it.

DPG

Passed DHV1 (Windows OS Fundamentals) today. Very easy exam if you have any professional experience with Windows 7.

boredgamelad

Got my last test (CIW Database) scheduled for Thursday @ 3:30 PM. Looking forward to being done and enjoying what little free time I have left before my daughter arrives (due end of February).

nosoup4u

Good luck, if it's anything like the other CIW's, should be nothing to worry about

Psoasman

Just focus on the terms, it really helped me to memorize all the terminology for this exam. Good luck!

Nemowolf

Psoasman wrote: »

Just focus on the terms, it really helped me to memorize all the terminology for this exam. Good luck!

Good to know! I just started my first CIW class and the terms are killing me. Some of there "definitions" are not what i would consider standard and it makes it hard to really learn their answers.

Ivanjam

From WGU: The TaskStream website will be unavailable on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 between 6:00 AM and 8:00 AM, EDT. During this time, TaskStream will be updating features of the TaskStream website.

arwes

So far it seems that much of my time at WGU is spent waiting LOL. Waiting on scheduling, waiting on Taskstream, etc. My webcam isn't going to be here until Friday, so I'll be taking CLC1 at the local library during work hours because they don't proctor on weekends or after hours it seems. And I'm taking WFV1 tomorrow, which looks to be pretty simple. I finished up the essay for LAE1 earlier, just waiting on Taskstream to open up so I can get it submitted now.

nosoup4u

Pretty much.

You need to schedule and get approval for things you want to do about a week before you actually want to take the exam, which is waiting on your mentor to approve, then getting the date scheduled and or a voucher and time conflicts at the testing center.

Ivanjam

arwes wrote: »

S...waiting on Taskstream, etc...

On another forum (WGU Students) this incessant checking on Taskstream to see if your task has been graded and released is called "Taskstream stalking" - I found the moniker uncannily poignant.