So just put what the examiner is thinking, obviously
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
That’s what always bothered me about exams. They’re always about what the examiner wants to hear and not about what is right.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
School trains you for real life. Repeat back what your boss told you, in a confident enough way to make it sound like you understand what’s happening.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Exactly
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
sounds like you went to a bad school. not all of us had that experience.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
For me, it was always where the teacher had to add their own flair and/or questions on top of the textbook ones. They were always the most ambiguous to answer, and cost everyone points. Of course, in American public school, we’re not taught to challenge our elders and call bullshit when we see it. So everyone takes the -5% on the chin, except that one kid that accidentally got that one right.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Go into a Math based field. No more trying to read your professor’s personalities to figure out what their opinions are so you can bullshit them into a good grade. Just cold, hard numbers. Often many ways to get to the same answer, but at the end, you are either right, or you are wrong.
I can’t stand subjective questions. How the fuck are you going to tell me that my interpretation of an abstract concept is wrong?! I’ll stick with numbers, thank you.
Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
ehhh then they subtract points if you do not use the same method of resolution as their solution
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Wasn’t ‘Feather or lead?’ one of the sphinxes questions? The correct answer depended on how hungry the sphinx was.
Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
I found my people. I always did well in English class, but I hated it, and liked math and science more for that exact reason. There is no intepretation or better answer, there is a exact method to get the right answer and you can easily check/prove why you’re right. No tricks or suprises, what you see is what you get, purely facts.
Now, I can write essays just fine, and I even enjoy them if it’s a topic I choose to write about. But those shitty standards of learning tests that we’d do in grade school fucking killed me. I was so suprised that I liked my college Lit course, we didn’t do bullshit like that, it was all about group discussion and intepretation of what we read that day.
Teaching just to meet standards really needs HEAVY reform/revision.
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I had teachers regularly state how much they loved reading my writing.
First professor in college hated men. Second professor hated men. Third prof… You get the picture. It’s ok, I like IT more anyway.
booly@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
There might be many methods to get the right answer, and you might not know which ones are easy and which are really difficult (and which are tricky enough to make mistakes more likely) until you try a few different approaches and maybe hit a few dead ends.
What is the sum of every integer from 1 to 99? Well, you can manually apply the arithmetic, adding two numbers at a time, but that’s going to take forever. Better to use a particular method of summing arithmetic sequences and get an easy answer in fewer steps.
Or take this deceptively simple looking problem of trying to integrate x to the x power, where the question asker is messing up their initial approach and the answers show several different concepts that are useful for solving.
With actually difficult problems, the difference between a good approach and a bad one can be the difference between the problem being actually solvable versus not solvable using the resources to have at your disposal (computing power, actual time, etc.).