If you are successful with your request, you will be awarded credit. It is your responsibility to prove that you have learned what you claim to have learned. Learning doesn't happen on one particular day or in one particular way. You may have become knowledgeable and competent in areas without even realizing that what you have learned can be evaluated and credited towards an academic goal. PLAR gives you the opportunity to make explicit the learning you have acquired and to describe this learning in ways that can be assessed for the possibility of earning course or program credit.
Experience is a way of learning and people learn through experience.
It is possible to have ten years of work experience but not have the equivalent amount of learning. It is not what you did that counts, it is what you learned from what you have done. All Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition requires evidence. The learner has the primary responsibility for preparing the evidence that learning has taken place and that it contributes to an appropriate balance of theory and practical application. Tangible proof of competence can be provided through documentation of accomplishments of demonstration of skill and knowledge.