Quote Originally Posted by DrewW777 View Post
That has been my experience. I haven't had a problem with switching classes for side quests and getting the XP where I want it to go.

In reci's defense, however, there may be a block on trying to get SP from a rXX quest with a class less than rXX, where XX stands for some number between 1 and 50. That would be something worth checking.
No, you get less SP if you're under the recommended rank for the quest but you can get the reward alright. For example if you're r20 and the quest is r25, instead of 2k SP you get 1.6k.