Re:Ask HN: Is online self-education useful or just delusion?
by znpy on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:22AM
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> The way you do it is you go through a full 4-year program on MIT's OCW. You do the same assignments and write the same tests actual students did a decade ago. Then you take a GRE subjects test.
Well surely you can do everything in your free time, but MIT is still not going to give you a degree of any kind for doing a full 4-year program on MIT OCW.
Re:Ask HN: Is online self-education useful or just delusion?
by whatyoucantsay on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:37PM
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Yes. This is exactly why it's important to do a rigourous exam such as a GRE subject test or a CFA.
The way you do it is you go through a full 4-year program on MIT's OCW. You do the same assignments and write the same tests actual students did a decade ago. Then you take a GRE subjects test.
Whether or not you use the score to enter a graduate school, it carries weight. The same is true for those who self study through one or preferably two or three levels of the CFA examinations.