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That suggests that these assignments are more like busy work, since the students are otherwise talented and qualified? Maybe it is a good thing after all?

• michaelt 7y ago
  Perhaps doing the assignment improves the student's understanding of the course material, which the professor thinks is a good thing, but it's possible to pass the course with only a mediocre understanding of the material?
  • leetcrew 7y ago
    > but it's possible to pass the course with only a mediocre understanding of the material probably this. the most time-efficient strategy for studying that I found in college was simply retyping all the bullets from the powerpoints 2-3 times. I didn't understand what I was writing, but I basically trained myself to be a "chinese room" for test questions. I got As on all the tests for classes I didn't care about this way.
    • meowface 7y ago
      Pretty much exactly what I did, as well. And I'd usually do it an hour or two before each test.