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Personally, I think exams are a horrible way to determine what people have actually understood. Most school exams are just looking for specific "magic" words th
by ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
Personally, I think exams are a horrible way to determine what people have actually understood. Most school exams are just looking for specific "magic" words that are learnt by rote. Questions might be set up to ask why water appears on the outside of a cold glass and the answer would be considered correct if the answer used the word "condensation" without needing any concept of humidity.
- lionkor 3y agoI believe this is an issue of how exams are done. There are certainly exams I've written, in Math, in English, in Philosophy, that tested my understanding, and there are certainly some that didnt.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoDefinitely agree. As a kid, it really bugged me when there were poorly worded questions that were often ambiguous if you thought about it. I found that exam success often relied on trying to think what the questions were looking for rather than what they were actually asking - basically considering the questions in the context of the course material.