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From: cdk@avsdS.UUCP (Chris Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept?
Message-ID: <60@avsdS.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 15:39:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 15:39:45 1985
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> > 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
> > tektronix!hammer!seifert
> 
> You can always challange a class by taking the final exam...
                      ^ 
                 challenge

(authors late correction!)