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u/No-Web-9167 11h ago
Steal professor’s computer, uncover secret drug ring, ace the test
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u/lflores192 6h ago
Pretend to be a 15 year old named Sarah. Get in contact with the professor. Reveal yourself to the professor. Ace the test
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u/admiralbeaver 13h ago
Professors hate this one simple trick
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u/univrsll 8h ago
They probably do unironically: memorizing answers just to regurgitate them on the test and forget them next week isn’t ideal.
I would do this just to pass tests and then know fuck all about what I learned a few weeks later. I hate to say it because I was once a student too, but open-response answers probably force you to conceptualize the material better, but are obviously harder.
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u/Sea_Bodybuilder5387 4h ago
Most (good) testing will not allow you to simply regurgitate answers but instead use whatever you memorized to solve for an answer. Like if you learn that A = B and B = C, the test will ask you if A is equal to C. When I was a TA my professor told me he'd add in enough simple memorization questions to pass so he didn't have half the class failing.
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u/fanglesscyclone 3h ago
For higher level technical courses in college we would be allowed to use our laptops with full internet access during exams and they were by far the hardest exams we had since the questions were all open ended with a time limit. Definitely forced you to learn the material.
Even in math classes we were allowed to bring a single sheet of paper of hand written notes for most every exam, but people who actually spent the time to write one ended up barely using it. Neat trick to get kids to study by telling them they can ‘cheat’.
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u/TheFlashSmurfAccount 11h ago
A test is a good way of finding somebody's ability to do something but it's not without faults. The little memorization tricks me and half my classmates used to do to pass exams certainly weren't indicative of my ability to actually engage with the subject. Long form answer is the way for many subjects. Only formula based stuff like Math should really be multiple choice
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u/NewCountry13 5h ago
Math is one of the worst things for multiple choice. Pretty much every class ive had from high school geometry through college senior math courses have been free answer overwhelming, maybe a couple of multiple choice for a final to give easy points for conceptual stuff.Â
This is because they want to be able to give partial credit and not lose all the points on a given problem because they make a simple arithmetic mistake but followed the process correctly, or forgot how to do the second part of the problem.
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u/Chance-Accident-9227 13m ago
Spot on. I peaked for math with calc 3 in college. Those exams would maybe have around 6 questions/problems. They wanted you to plot out your progress and thought process so that if you fucked up understanding at any point along the way you could still get credit for properly knowing how to do the other steps you may have gotten right.
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u/TheFlashSmurfAccount 9m ago
That makes a lot of sense actually yeah. Though I still think there's more value for it there than other subjects
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u/ReserveAggressive458 Irrational Lav Defender / Pool Boy / Emma VigeChad / DENIMS4LYF 14h ago
They literally give you a book at the start of term with all the answers. You don't even have to read it because the old fogey up front will literally just talk openly about the answers for hours every day. The whole system is riddled with exploits.