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Re: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed)
Subject:Re: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed) From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:32:01 -0600
Most of the tests I took for my library science degrees were open book. That did NOT
make them easy. If you hadn't studied, didn't know the information going into the
test, having your notes (there were very few books) wasn't going to do you a lot of
good. You'd spend far too much time trying to find the information you should have
already known.
Jo Byrd
Damien Braniff wrote, in part:
> I know information is easily available but there is some we should KNOW without
> looking it up. At university my second and third year exams were 'open book' -
> you could bring anything you liked into the exam with you. Second year was the
> eye-opener for everyone (didn't count towards the degree as such - just had to
> pass them) and lots of people got lower marks than expected. I think this was the
> idea, to get us to buck up our ideas for the final year. Basically we were told
> you'll be classed as engineers when you leave and will have reference books to
> check things. Here CHECK is the important word - we had to answer 5 out of 8
> questions. If you KNEW the stuff but had to check the occasional formula etc, no
> problem. However, if you have the idea that you can just look everything up then
> you end up answering maybe 3-4 question and have dropped 20% of the marks straight
> away.
>
> I<snip>
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