If you are furnishing the correct information about your education and employment, then it may not be termed as a fraud. You have said that you had informed the college authorities for skipping the classes and despite this, they permitted you to appear in the examination. So, I think it should be alright if the college has officially permitted you to appear in examination without attending classes and if the rules permit it. There are many persons who study along with their employment.
The only grey area would be if your attendance was falsely shown in the college records even though you did not attend the classes, in order to enable you to appear in the examination. That can be objectionable.
However, if no such false attendance was shown and you had been permitted to appear in the examination despite not attending the classes, then it may not be a fraud. But, even in this situation, if a minimum attendance percentage was necessary (say 75%) and despite your having less attendance percentage, you were permitted by college to appear in examination, then it may be an issue for the college authorities to reply. You can also check whether the university / college has a rule to disqualify a person in such situation, when he was allowed to appear in examination without fulfilling the attendance conditions. Yet, it cannot be termed as a fraud if no falsification of records has taken place.
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