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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    An unimpressive teacher, but that’s the pattern. I once tried redoing a math class as a CC because I wasn’t comfortable with the possible gaps that would come from being in the remedial version at HS. I had to take a placement test, tested out and then I insisted that I wanted to take it anyway, I was told it had filled up. It somehow had four openings later that night when I checked of anyone had dropped online.

    Ideally, I’d like to redo certain classes in a CC, but not accumulate credits so I can apply as a freshman at a real college and get involved in UROP.

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      5 hours ago

      So you tested out of remedial math, but wanted to take it anyway. But it was full. Got it-tracking

      So you checked later and slots opened up which is…normal? And you didn’t take it?

      And this is the fault of community colleges everywhere?

      I don’t get it.

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        4 hours ago

        I don’t trust placement tests. When you’re in the remedial track, any failure proves you need the extra help and any success proves how much of a good fit you are for the extra help. Placement tests just skim the surface and only “work” under the assumption that you wont need anything that’s not covered by them.

        I doubt four people dropped the class in the few hours after I was told it was full. One or two, sure, but four? And they were instanced that I shouldn’t take the class, so I suspect that they lied about it being full. The class being full was a frequent lie I was told in HS whenever I was trying to get into better classes. Funny how I was the only student who that they never seemed to have room for.