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Yes, in middle school we had weekly tests where we got graded on our recollection of that week's vocabulary.

• gshdg 7y ago
  Wow, that sounds excruciating.
  • randomchars 7y ago
    This is quite frequent in countries of the ex-soviet block. Most of the language classes we had were about rote memorization and recall of words without context.
    • mortivore 7y ago
      It's a common thing in the United States too.
      • JCharante 7y ago
        Right, I went to middle school in Maine (which is in the United States for those that are not that acquainted with it.) in an Urban region.