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I’d say 50% of my electrical engineering courses were this way in a bad semester and it was often emotionally debilitating and resulted in lots of test anxiety
by spacemadness 4y ago
I’d say 50% of my electrical engineering courses were this way in a bad semester and it was often emotionally debilitating and resulted in lots of test anxiety fueled fever dreams. And this is after the first years were weeded out and lots of hard working and bright students remained. I think it’s absolutely pointless to do this and is a cop out for those that can’t teach.
- 7thaccount 4y agoExactly. This was my junior year where we were all battle-hardened vets that had survived two full years of weed-out classes. At some point it's bad teaching. I still have test related nightmares in my 30s.
- spacemadness 4y agoI think the worst part is it reinforces this adversarial system by those survivors that go into academia. You see it in comments in these threads where folks think it was worth it as it says something about them. I don’t buy it even though I made it through despite many professorial efforts to thwart real learning through artificial difficulty and bad teaching.