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That's actually a very interesting idea. What if it changed the game so that instead of exams causing stress and discouraging learning, people were incentivize

That's actually a very interesting idea. What if it changed the game so that instead of exams causing stress and discouraging learning, people were incentivized to learn at their own pace and eventually pass the exam? This situation already exists with many professional credentials, such as CPA, CFA, FSA, etc. They tell you what will be on the exam, provide practice problems, lots of study materials are available from different sources, and you take it when you're ready. There's also college exams that have a similar function (CLEP is the acronym I think?) but they're not really highlighted as a preferred path to students.

professoretc 5y ago
> There's also college exams that have a similar function (CLEP is the acronym I think?) but they're not really highlighted as a preferred path to students. That's correct. But not all schools accept it, and if a school accepts it they may not accept all the different exams. (CLEP exams mostly cover general-ed subjects.) Most schools also have an in-house option to test-out of classes, but it may be up to the individual departments to determine whether they want to allow that. Schools may also disincentivise testing-out in other ways... When I wanted to test out of the intro-to-computers course which was, at the same, required of all students, I had to pay the normal per-unit fee (as if I had taken the course normally) plus a special "challenge fee".