WGU Competency test?

whatthehell

Leaning towards applying to WGU and just spoke to an enrollment guy.

He kept mentioning that before I can apply, I have to do an competency test.

I assume a lot of people have done this .....piece of cake? Wicked hard? Any recommendations?

NotHackingYou

It was pretty easy. Brush up on basic high school math and english.

forestgiant

Yeah it's super wicked hard and requires you to be a genius mathematician with potential Nobel prize nomination, and have written a novel or two. Recommendations? Let me google that for you.

Devilry

^^ wow pretty ... harsh.


I have heard that is is remedial high school level math and English with some analytical reasoning skills. I found a bunch of info in the student experiences sticky.

paulgswanson

It really is pretty basic, If you passed MiddleSchool math you should be fine on that part.

The english is a little harder though, 12th grade level-ish

NetworkVeteran

I just found these gems on a blog about WGU's readiness test--

Someone's Blog wrote:

If you have Word or other word processing software, use it to help you with spelling and even the grammar.. I took the readiness assessment at home, with my husband sitting directly behind me. He's a computer guy who is terrific at math.

Online tests.

erpadmin

While I don't particularly care for the unjokingly manner in which forestgiant described the readiness exam, it's really not an exam at all.

It's just to give WGU enrollment counselors an idea of how you would do in a WGU program. It wasn't an exam I studied for...I just wrote an essay, answered some questions, and that was it. The ASVAB was a much harder exam...

The real "online tests" occurred while you are enrolled in a class and there is going to be no husband (or wife, or preacher, or any other person) sitting directly behind you.

In short, if you have at a minimum average intelligence, you should be able to pass with no trouble at all. Plus, you can certainly google whatever you need to google.

boredgamelad

It only takes about an hour if you're math and English competent. The only problem I really had was coming up with a topic to answer the essay question. Open ended stuff like "Name a time in your life when you struggled with something and how you overcame it" always throws me for a loop. I'd much rather write an essay about... anything else. I sat there for a good 15 minutes trying to figure out where to start on that but once I got going it only took me about 10 minutes to write. You get notified of the pass really quickly, or at least I did.

erpadmin

boredgamelad wrote: »

Open ended stuff like "Name a time in your life when you struggled with something and how you overcame it" always throws me for a loop. I'd much rather write an essay about... anything else.

Welcome to "Life" ... where not everything will be presented to you in a nice, gift-wrapped package with a pretty bow on it.

boredgamelad

That's not what I meant, but thanks?

erpadmin

My thing was (and was trying to be tounge-in-cheek about and not sound like a d---) if that was going to throw you for a loop, imagine when you start...that's why I gave you a razz....

Cthu1hu

Math part had some pre-algebra questions. I think 20 for each section then an essay. I dropped mine, haven't gotten around to getting back on the ball yet. Last year it was a 6 month wait for a retake, they seemed to have changed it to 3 months now.