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They do (usually). You can even get credit for it, at least in the US, it called CLEP - https://clep.collegeboard.org/ https://clep.collegeboard.org/. Cheapest
by zanny 13y ago
They do (usually). You can even get credit for it, at least in the US, it called CLEP - https://clep.collegeboard.org/ https://clep.collegeboard.org/. Cheapest year of college I ever had - was around $200.
I skipped an entire years worth of useless general ed courses to get my "requirements" to graduate out of the way at my college on 6 CLEP tests. I think the notes I took for those tests reading the wikibooks and wikipedia articles on the various topics on those tests were some of the best domain information notes I've taken. I also wrote them online, so pretty much all my K-12 notes are useless, but I gave my CLEP notes to my extended family with notes they need to read the material themselves but I did a bunch of work already.
- jjsz 13y agoCan you link your CLEP notes?
- jjsz 13y agoCan you link your CLEP notes?
- Crake 13y agoA lot of colleges won't allow you to CLEP out of things anymore, sadly. :( There's too much money to be made off of you.
- caw 13y agoNow you can take AP courses, or "Advanced Placement". Through my high school each test was about $80, you're graded on a scale of 1-5 which is on a percentage basis (X% of people get a 5, etc). Schools can determine what sort of credit they want to take, but general rule is 3 or higher. My college only took 5s in sciences, but it was an engineering school. I skipped out on 26 credit hours of 140ish for the degree. It basically allowed me to change my major a year in without impacting my graduation date.
- Crake 13y agoYes, my school had AP courses as well, but only two of them. :( I think it's because my school was rural and poor. I've always been jealous of people who got to go to schools where they could take seven or eight AP courses and get a massive headstart on college.