Does anyone else feel like that even after doing 4 tests, you find out that you rarely even GET anything at all?

Or is it just me?

I usually get quite a few nice listener badges from the vids. Meteorite badges are the most common. I have all of them except for the coding and the 1 year one. And some are repeats.

I think that tests mostly just give you the energy points and not as much the badges. 

I have all available Meteorite badges (284) and every Moon badge except for Good Answer (22). It seems like I rarely get any new badges. I have 2 Earth badges, 6 Sun badges, ZERO Black Hole badges, and 17 Challenge Patches.

I started 16 weeks ago, and have been really slacking off for the past 2 or 3 weeks. I have approx 39 : 8 : 1 : 3 : 0 : 0. (Meteorite, moon, earth, sun, BH, CP)

Mine is: meteorite: 31, moon: 7 earth: 1, sun: 3, black hole and challenge patches: 0

And even after that I do a course test, I STILL get NOTHING except USELESS  energy points!

(Sorry if that felt offensive)

Maybe Khan Academy hopes that as you get further into the courses, you will enjoy learning for the sake of learning, rather than needing badges to be motivated.  (Personally, I am more likely to be annoyed at a notification of earning a badge, rather than excited to get one.)

For me though, I really want to get a specific badge, just to find out that I have to go through thousands of units and tests just to get that specific badge.

So do I. This is especially true with the Black Hole badges, particularly Atlas (5000 unique skills mastered) and Artemis (7500 skills mastered).

So Artemis is TECHNICALLY impossible to get.

Olamoth Artyom Tetrakleitos, pumpitendo, and xyzyyxx have all earned Artemis.

How long did they study for in KA?

Like in years, months, or weeks.

Olamoth Artyom Tetrakleitos:

pumpitendo:

xyzyyxx:

Even though I joined KA 9 years ago I only really started going for the BHBs seriously about 2 years ago actually