if i were to fail english 20 (for not having done the majority of the course work out of laziness, not retardation) could i take a CLEP test and not have the F/D (whatever i get) F*** up my gpa (ie have the CLEP test replace my bad grade with a credit exemption) or do i have to just repeat the course next semester to replace the bad grade?

Not sure but I took the CLEP test this fall for it and I can tell you it's extremely easy. The CLEP doesn't count as a grade, so no GPA for it. I don't have an answer for your question though.

As far as I'm aware, once you attempt the class, you can't test out of it at any point after that. At least not normally.

If you're so lazy that you fail out of a class (and English 20, at that), then you're retarded regardless.

lol, yah i know. im retaking it next semester. you can test out of the class, but then the bad grade will stand.

I was going to say the same thing. I've never done well in English classes because I'm horrible at writing papers and get lazy and don't read the literature they assign. Yet, English 20 was my first A in an English class since middle school. How the hell does one fail it?

skipping the last 7 weeks of class and not writing 2 of the papers or doing any of those stupid miscelaneous assignments. TBH on the 2 papers i did "write" (and by write i mean BS at 4 in the morning the day before they were due) i got As. But i didn't even crack open the last two books we read. So its a little harder to bs on them.

English 20 with Knight was the easiest class imaginable.

Well, not going to class does keep you out of the "toxic sun's rays."

indeed. Who needs aenglash anyway? We should all just speak in machine code!

0100 1001 0010 0000 0110 0001 0110 1101 0010 0000 0111 0101 0111 0000 0010 0000 0110 0110 0110 1111 0111 0010 0010 0000 0111 0100 0110 1000 0110 0001 0111 0100 0010 1110

*I am up for that.

01110111 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101000

we dont need no stinking english

So you skipped 50% of the 16 week semester? I'm assuming you missed at least a couple days in the first 9 weeks to make it that full 50%.

I don't want to sound like an asshole, but you are averging 100 post per month here, surely you could have spent some of your time writing your papers instead. I would really recommend getting good study habbits now because harder classes are going to kick your ass.[/i]

oh i study for other classes. actually i got 4As and a B (dern macroecon), English is just my kryptonite... and i know im a post whore but im not the only one.