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You can't just pass tests to get an undergrad degree Yes you can. Almost every school has a procedure for taking a test or convincing a professor that you hav

by dsp1234 11y ago

You can't just pass tests to get an undergrad degree Yes you can. Almost every school has a procedure for taking a test or convincing a professor that you have the knowledge the class provides. You still pay the cost of the course, but do not actually attend it. Getting my degree many, many years after entering the field, I skipped a huge swath of undergrad classes this way. Stuff like non-computer related classes was all that I needed to do 'in person'. In other words, I skipped 'pressing buttons' for a large chunk of time due to fact that I knew the material and could prove it. The main difference to the above being that the school recognized that it was possible for a student to understand the core material completely without taking the class, and the above rules do not admit that possibility.

frotak 11y ago
Getting my degree many, many years after entering the field So would you say you had experiential learning in the subject matter of the classes you were being allowed to skip after demonstrating both evidence of this experiential learning and the attendant competency? Testing out of a course due to earned knowledge is different from passing a multiple choice exam with Cliff Notes awareness of the material.
- dsp1234 11y ago
  is different from passing a multiple choice exam Some of the classes did just have multiple choice tests that would have been easy enough to 'Cliff'. Though it's not really relevant to larger discourse. That still doesn't change the facts of the original situation. The test is the determining factor of whether or not they 'completed' the course. Indeed, someone who 'Cliff'ed the notes, and passed the test, and watched Netflix on a second screen while pushing all of the right buttons would still be accepted. Which is the ultimate failure here. Either the time limit is necessary and can't be skipped (due to the physical limitations of some inherent process), or the time limit is artificial and the actual possession of knowledge is sufficient. Who is served by putting an artificial time limit in place that does not actually prove knowledge of the material?

by dsp1234 11y ago

frotak 11y ago

Getting my degree many, many years after entering the field So would you say you had experiential learning in the subject matter of the classes you were being allowed to skip after demonstrating both evidence of this experiential learning and the attendant competency? Testing out of a course due to earned knowledge is different from passing a multiple choice exam with Cliff Notes awareness of the material.

dsp1234 11y ago
is different from passing a multiple choice exam Some of the classes did just have multiple choice tests that would have been easy enough to 'Cliff'. Though it's not really relevant to larger discourse. That still doesn't change the facts of the original situation. The test is the determining factor of whether or not they 'completed' the course. Indeed, someone who 'Cliff'ed the notes, and passed the test, and watched Netflix on a second screen while pushing all of the right buttons would still be accepted. Which is the ultimate failure here. Either the time limit is necessary and can't be skipped (due to the physical limitations of some inherent process), or the time limit is artificial and the actual possession of knowledge is sufficient. Who is served by putting an artificial time limit in place that does not actually prove knowledge of the material?