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The student who spends time preparing for a test, reviewing the material, studying previous tests, drilling with practice tests, actually has more scholastic ap
by droithomme 7y ago
The student who spends time preparing for a test, reviewing the material, studying previous tests, drilling with practice tests, actually has more scholastic aptitude than the students who do not do this because these are actual research and preparation skills that are valuable to success in mastering college material.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoThe only skill you gain while cramming for the SAT is how to cram for tests like the SAT. The gameability of the SAT is not an indication of general scholastic aptitude
- freeone3000 7y agoIf general scholastic aptitude measured something other than how to study for tests and write essays, then you might be onto something, except that college is simply more of the same.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoSure, maybe if you went to a degree mill.
- learc83 7y agoI always wonder where people get this view of college (the GP's view that is). I went to a non-name state school for undergrad and it was nothing like the above.
- stale2002 7y agoYou have just described what college is. College is all about studying/cramming for tests. And yes, this applies to "top" engineering colleges and otherwise.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoMaybe for you?
- stale2002 7y agoIt is for a whole lot of students.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoSorry to hear about your poor educational experience.
- stale2002 7y agoI means, it's the educational experience of top colleges, such as Carnegie Mellon, that I attended. This includes the engineering, math, CS, and social sciences class that I took.
- droithomme 7y agoI went to Stanford and yeah much of the time was learning the material, then preparing for tests by reviewing material and studying. There was also doing projects, researching, and writing papers arguing various positions and analyzing things. As well as some novel research. It's very strange to hear people here saying all these things are dumb or foolish or something, and good colleges are not like this at all and this is a "poor educational experience". OK, well, what was their school like then? They don't say. Details and names of schools are omitted from the posts of the critics. Are they talking about the drinking and sex at party schools? Or maybe the football games they attended? That is all fine but I don't usually include that when talking about the academic experience per se. Right, studying, learning and preparing for tests is not about those things, true. But so?
- cycrutchfield 7y ago