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[matwood]

Not necessarily. Do you think most programs for a programming classes are written during the exams? What if a student passed every programming exam with an A, but never wrote a complete program and turned it in during the class?

[steveklabnik → matwood]

This was a math class. The homework was just hundreds of problems that were just like the ones I aced.