CBE assessments grade MA, ME, or NM, Mastered, Met, Not Met, with up to three submission attempts each, and course credit requires ME or better on the majority of a course's assessments. The assessments are authentic by design: run a real SWOT on your own employer, build a genuine improvement plan for your own unit. Send the assessment brief and its rubric plus two paragraphs of your real context, and we draft to Mastered in 24 to 48 hours, grounded in your actual workplace, with free revision across the attempt structure until the mark you need posts. Carrying several CBE courses at once, the model allows up to five, gets a managed map so the freedom compounds instead of collapsing.
What "authentic assessment" changes about drafting
Traditional papers reward research performance; Phoenix's CBE assessments reward applied judgment on real material. That kills generic help instantly, a SWOT of a textbook company answers a prompt that asked for yours, and it is why our CBE intake always starts with context capture: your employer or unit, the situation, the constraints, in a few honest sentences. The draft then reads like what the rubric actually describes, a working professional applying the competency to their own world, because with your context in hand, that is literally what it is. Confidentiality holds absolutely; your employer's details never leave the order.
The MA / ME / NM strategy
- Target Mastered, bank Met: credit needs ME-or-better on the majority of assessments, so an early MA cushion converts later into schedule freedom
- Spend attempts like currency: three per assessment, and the first should be built to finish; our drafts treat attempt one as the only one
- Read NM feedback literally: resubmissions that answer the evaluator's exact language convert; cosmetic revision wastes an attempt
- Sequence the majority math: know exactly which assessments carry your course credit and never leave the deciding one for a tired week
- Concurrent courses want a map: five at once is allowed, and unmanaged it is five ways to drift; dated assessment plans make it five ways to finish early
The CBE expedite, named honestly
These tracks are Phoenix's real acceleration lane: self-paced assessments, concurrent enrollment, and the CBE MBA marketed as finishable inside a year. Pace here is assessment throughput, and assessment throughput is precisely what a 24-to-48-hour drafting desk manufactures, which is why the expedite program scopes to the CBE and Direct Assessment tracks and stays honest about the letter-graded stack's fixed calendar. Guarantee wording follows the scale: on these tracks we target Mastered, and revision runs free until the mark posts.
An assessment is open in your queue
Send the brief, the rubric, and two paragraphs of your real context. A Mastered-targeted draft returns in 24 to 48 hours.