Do you learn less on the quarter system?

[ucbalumnus]

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@space115

After all, a student on the quarter system may be learning the same amount as a student on the semester system on a particular course which both of them are taking. So why does 1 quarter credit have to equal to 2/3 semester credit if you might be learning the same amount?

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<p>If you have 100 cents, 20 nickels, 10 dimes, or 4 quarters, you have the same amount of money.</p>

<p>Semester versus quarter credits (or other ways of describing course credit at schools) all add up to (theoretically) the same amount of course work at graduation. (Theoretically in that different courses, or the same courses at different schools, may have more or less content or workload, even if they are nominally the same credits. But that is not a semester versus quarter system issue.)</p>