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Yeah, same for my prokaryotic molecular biology class. The questions were 100 percent theoretical, and you were even allowed to take the test at home. After the
by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Yeah, same for my prokaryotic molecular biology class. The questions were 100 percent theoretical, and you were even allowed to take the test at home. After the first one, it made sense why — the questions are totally ungooglable, and working with anyone else would’ve immediately polluted my mind and been obvious.
- the_third_wave 4y ago> the questions are totally ungooglable If you remember one of the questions it would be interesting to know what the current crop of LLM chat bots return in answer. If you know the correct answer to the question it would be especially interesting to know whether the prose the things return has any semblance of truth to it.
- hgsgm 4y agoIt's not that interesting yet. AltmanAI isn't claiming yet that GPT can solve unique problems.
- 3pt14159 4y agoWell, the issue with take home tests isn't the Googling per-se, it's the hiring out of the work. My preference for university exams was a simple, single page cheatsheet that you had to make yourself. You could write the finicky stuff that is hard to remember on it, but you couldn't fast-learn the material like you could from a book. Though I do remember writing out little programs for the weirder stuff like required coverage over concrete reinforcement bars. Which felt a bit like cheating at the time.
- hgsgm 4y agoNext step is to go wheel of fortune style, and provide a standard cheat sheet with the finicky formulas, and then let the students at their own supplementary cheat sheet