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My CS exams in Europe and Australia involved calculations, proving stuff and applying knowledge to find the solution without a list of possible answers. Multipl
by LockAndLol 6y ago
My CS exams in Europe and Australia involved calculations, proving stuff and applying knowledge to find the solution without a list of possible answers. Multiple choice questions at this level have always confused me and seemed like a really inept way of testing understanding (if they test understanding at all).
I was fully expecting to see an implementation of a red-black tree, the use of software patterns, questions of why a certain solution was picked or what algorithm to pick and why, creating a circuit with logic gates that fulfill a certain function, etc.
This all seems more like a test of memory. "Do you remember exercise XXX on page YYY? Great, now pick the correct solution!". Him saying "I remember the solution to this from one of my earlier videos" even confirmed my bias against these things.
- crote 6y agoYeah, but that's much harder to grade. The main benefit of multiple-choice is that grading is instant. There is no ambiguity, no half points. I completely agree that tests like this should not exist, but sadly they do. Even in Europe bachelor's courses seem to be slowly shifting towards this.
- TrackerFF 6y agoLikely to do with the number of students taking the test. As N, number of students taking the test, grows - it just makes more sense to use a form which is easy to automatically grade. I'm not how sure how many students are taking these test, but given that it's in India, we're probably talking about tens to hundreds of thousand students.