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In short, competency-based learning allows more students to obtain the real skills they need, in less time, and with what would seem to be greater chance for success. Competency-based learning allows students to circumvent the accumulation of excessive and often-wasted credits simply for the sake of fulfilling (what many believe to be) an arbitrarily defined term of study along the aforementioned continuum.
