2026-04-20 20:24 UTC
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@fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2026-04-20 20:41
That's the kind of student that grade focused test prep "education" systems are designed to provide.
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@FallenGrove@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 01:04
The long answer questions were always my favorite in school because I suck at memorization. I can explain a concept well, but never pick the correct answer out of a list because it wasn't my version of the answer.
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@asmoranomar@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 03:07
Yes, but also on the flip side, I have sat thru classes where the teacher did not know the curriculum and I had to explain things to the students. I also built the infrastructure for a computer lab and then had classes in that very lab. When the teacher couldn't set up the conditions for a test, they consulted me to troubleshoot it (in this case, the teacher was not at fault, it was the equipment). I tried to CLEP, but most of the time (for me) i failed many because I was either bad at the test, covered material that I was never taught, or the course could not be CLEP. The annoying thing is that in almost every case, there was stuff that wasn't in the CLEP that I was taught, or vice versa after taking the course. If the course doesn't teach you to understand, then the metric being measured is not "understanding".