Our class were handpicked (most from 2016 and 2017 bid) for that online basic class, except for a few that was thrown in. IMO, students in our class are both street smart and book smart, even though they don't look book smart. If I had to choose one reason why we weren't successful, it would be, we didn't stick together as a study group, going across the street(even though I suspects our class being thrown to the wolves, for either costing the FAA a lot of money for not validating the online basic course, or a student stealing a binder and not returning it at the end like we are suppose to).
What stands out now was, how we used to all study at the 3 amigos house, until it was only the 3 amigos and 1 other student left. It now made sense because that 1 other students, said "f them" to the group (I don't judge because I don't know where he came from), when I wanted to buy everyone fried chickens and he wanted me to save money. The first student, he bad mouth to me about, never showed up to the study group again at the 3 amigos house. I don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but could 1 student turn everyone against each other?