Yes, but at the potential expense of grade-bearing classes, and because grades seem to be important, grade-bearing classes tend to take a higher priority than i

Yes, but at the potential expense of grade-bearing classes, and because grades seem to be important, grade-bearing classes tend to take a higher priority than interesting non-grade bearing ones. At university, I audited several modules, and there were many that I wanted to attend, but couldn't, either due to timetabling clashes with the classes I was supposed to attend, or because the process for attending classes in disciplines entirely unrelated to my subject was prohibitive. When the workload expected of me grew too great, I reduced my participation or dropped out of my audited classes. With the removal of grades (and compulsory modules) entirely, I might have dropped some of my graded modules in favour of others.