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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept?
Message-ID: <1326@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 14:53:30 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 14:53:30 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 04:39:34 EDT
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Reply-To: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
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Summary: really about taking classes by exam

In article <5682@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:

>It is also possible to find the particular course so easy that reading
>the textbook the night before each exam suffices to get a good mark.
>
>I have seen both of these phenomena, in cases where I'm quite sure there
>was no cheating.  Clearly it *is* wasteful for the person in question to
>be taking the course under these circumstances, but there isn't any other
>way to get credit for the material.

Some schools allow an "independant study", or "credit by exam" method.
You read the book, work exercises, or whatever you think you need,
then go in and take the exam.  I took some courses this way, it worked
out fairly well.  Spared me the time sitting through lectures,
and freed up a seat in the lecture hall.  Only problem was that with
other classes using up all my time, I usually ended up doing 2/3
of the course in the last week.

Snoopy
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