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Are Saylor Academy exams open book? ›

Good to know. The information on this page applies to the proctored credit exams for our credit-recommended courses. These exams are closed-book and closed-notes: only the extra resources on this page can be used on the exams. The allowed materials for an exam will also be shown when you launch your proctoring session.

Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. We offer over 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels. So far, our small team has served over a million students in most nations of the world.

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All courses are available to complete — at your pace, on your schedule, and free of cost.

However, Saylor Academy is not accredited to award degrees itself and not all accredited higher educational institutions accept credit earned for courses at Saylor Academy. It is important to check with the specific institution to check their policies regarding transfer.

It depends on how familiar you are with the material. In general, I'd say no. Saylor courses tend to be a little chaotic, with material pulled from multiple sources. The upshot is that you end up covering more material than is really on the final, and some of it will be repetitive.

Study: Preparation is key!

Remember, open book does not mean that you don't need to prepare or study! This is even more important if your open book exam is timed. Because open-book exams require you to use “higher levels of thinking”, you won't just be asked about facts or to recall.

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Courses in the Saylor Direct Credit program include a proctored credit final exam in addition to the normal certificate exam. The credit exam provides a recommendation for credit from ACE upon completion. Passing the proctored credit exam is the ONLY way to earn the ACE recommendation for credit for your course.

A voracious and often self-directed learner, Saylor graduated at the top of his high school class and attended MIT on a ROTC scholarship, completing dual degrees in Aeronautics & Astronautics and Science, Technology, & Society.

Saylor Foundation was established in 1999 by its sole trustee, Michael J. Saylor, who is chairman, CEO, and president of the business intelligence company MicroStrategy.

Who is the owner of Saylor? ›

Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm & holder of ₿226,500 that he founded in 1989. He is also the founder of Alarm.com (ALRM), named inventor on 48+ patents, & author of the book “The Mobile Wave”.

With App Academy Open you'll get free access to App Academy's entire Full-Time Coding Bootcamp curriculum (that's over 500 hours of material!), which has placed thousands of people in software development jobs. This is the same curriculum taught in our Full-Time Coding Bootcamp.

Saylor Academy has agreements with a number of schools to facilitate transfer of college credit into a degree program. Typically, these colleges and universities are in the United States, and students will need to be matriculated at the partner school to be able to earn transfer credit.

Who accredits Harvard? The New England Commission of Higher Education (formerly the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc.) accredits Harvard University. NECHE is one of six regional accrediting organizations in the United States.

Considered the most prestigious and widely-recognized type of accreditation, regionally-accredited schools are reviewed by their designated regional agency. Nationally-accredited agencies review institutions of a similar type, such as career, vocational, and technical (art & design, nursing, etc.)

All Saylor Academy courses offer a Certificate Final Exam, which grants a free certificate upon completion. Courses in the Saylor Direct Credit program include a proctored credit final exam in addition to the normal certificate exam.

Once time is up, even if you have not finished your exam, you're required to hand in the exam to your proctor. Open book. Students can use their textbooks, course materials, and notes during the exam if they need them! However, you can't use the internet or saved files to help with the exam.

CPC exam basics. The CPC exam is open book. You'll be given 4 hours to complete 100 multiple-choice questions. Passing will require you to answer 70% of the questions correctly.

I just passed the Saylor CS107 non-proctored final exam, and it was pretty easy, even without any knowledge of C++, because the syntax is pretty similar to Java, which I'm familiar with. And it was all pretty simple multiple choice questions.