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This comment is bonkers. This isn't the real world, where you can look things up on Google, or ask your economist friend, or email Brad Delong for help. This is
by astazangasta 12y ago
This comment is bonkers. This isn't the real world, where you can look things up on Google, or ask your economist friend, or email Brad Delong for help. This is a university exam. The whole fucking point of it is to test your understanding of the material covered in the course.
- logn 12y agoI've taken lots of exams where they expect you to apply the knowledge you've mastered in a course to solve a new problem.
- mynameisvlad 12y agoApplying the knowledge taught in the course is different from applying knowledge of something tangentially related to something taught in the course to a completely different problem, which is what seems to have happened here.
- Goronmon 12y agoIsn't the argument of the students in the article effectively that they were expected to apply knowledge they weren't taught to solve a new problem?
- bentcorner 12y agoAnd that's certainly an important skill to have. But it doesn't appear to have been taught in the class. This is like sitting in a driver's ed. classroom for a few weeks, and then putting you in your car for the actual test with no practice in the middle.
- notacoward 12y agoNo, it's not. The whole fucking point, as you put it, is to test your ability to function in that problem domain. Testing mere regurgitation isn't that useful.