Same way here... I had to read like 10 300 page books a semester in order to get my credit... Here's the secret, when taking the evaluation test, flunk it. Then it will give you a lower points requirement and there you go, you can read lower level books... I was too 'dumb' at the time to flunk the test, so my point requirement was humongous. And, if you got 100% of your point requirement you got 100%, if you did any more you got extra credit... So, I didn't do any of my literature classwork/homework, I just read a bunch of books and got the extra credit and came out of the class with an A+. I was the cause of the teacher to change her grading system, this has been years and years ago...
And you are telling us this even after she changed the grading system because...