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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?
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 10:59:46 EDT
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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...