I'd say it shows the weakness of the teaching system, if you can pass by just memorizing. I guess standardized tests are to be blamed for that. In a decent fore

I'd say it shows the weakness of the teaching system, if you can pass by just memorizing. I guess standardized tests are to be blamed for that. In a decent foreign language class, treating it as a memorization excercize should let you fail. And in my experience it did.