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> "The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory," explained Ayan's f
by jlgaddis 12y ago
> "The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory," explained Ayan's father Asim.
Maybe I'm just cynical but this made me think that the boy simply memorized the questions on the some of the previous tests that have been posted on the Internet ("dumps").
- Terr_ 12y agoOr it might be a case of "Benny's Rules": http://blog.mathed.net/2011/07/rysk-erlwangers-bennys-conception-of.html http://blog.mathed.net/2011/07/rysk-erlwangers-bennys-concep...
- sghi 12y agoI agree that he probably did, and in an ideal world I think it would be better if he was a bit older and had a little more knowledge of the whole subject area. But where do you draw the line? If he memorizes some information, and that leads to him being the 'computer expert' amongst friends and family, and he ends up in an IT career that he really enjoys because of it, is that a bad thing? My first experiences were looking up basic problems online, then memorizing them enough so that if the problem happened again I could fix it. Eventually I wanted to dig more into the actual problem, and just like that I was hooked! So yeah, it might be a problem but hopefully it'll lead to something productive and if the kid actually enjoys it I can't see the harm.