> The deeper point is an exam is a very poor proxy for actual learning to start with. It's far from perfect, but it's better than the alternatives, and various

> The deeper point is an exam is a very poor proxy for actual learning to start with. It's far from perfect, but it's better than the alternatives, and various organizations and people and powers-that-be reasonably want some kind of measure of whether someone actually learned something in a class/degree.