I began with the pre-assessment built into the course material and scored an abysmal 50% on the nose. One of the great things about the WGU courses is that the pre-assessment tells you exactly where you went wrong, so you can focus your studying efforts and save time. I admit, I was discouraged, and didn't look at the course for about 5 weeks (I did get some English Comp papers done though). Then I resigned myself to getting this class done. After spending almost 2 weeks reading through my weaker chapters (I'm looking at YOU cable specifications and subnetting), I took another crack at the pre-assessment and had improved to only 72%. This was not good news.
I had a feeling that maybe some of my answers weren't completely wrong, but either that the text wanted a specific answer (when other answers are satisfactory), or I was really overthinking things. I adopted the strategy of learning from test questions. For the next 24 hours I drilled through test questions, reviewing each one, even if I got them correct, to solidify them in my brain. The next day I took the post-assessment, which is the test that should be used as a gauge for final exam readiness, and I got a 99%. Just to be on the safe side, I went back and reviewed all of the chapter quizzes for my weaker topics.
