Well geesh - no wonder kids these days don't know anything ...

[eggler]

A test for history? "multiple-choice"? If it was 1 out of 4, you could get 40% by just guessing. Is this what you would call a cake class or what? If I remember rightly we had to write 2000 word assignments, and the one test we did have we still writing a 1000 words.... (Queensland school, only a few years ago).

[]v[orpheus]

Originally posted by LanSite
Palm Beach County high school students taking a new history exam this week need to answer just 23 of 100 multiple-choice questions correctly to pass.

To get an A, they need to get just over half the answers right. A B grade requires only 39 correct answers.

Multiple choice of course.
That still wouldn't have helped some of the no-brainers in my year when I was back in high school. That test sure is ridiculous. Not really a test of what you've learnt.

[SeaWolf]

Those who forget history are bound to repeat it.
Late

[jamble]

I hate exams, they're not a reflection on how well you know your subject but rather how well you can do in a one off sitting. Coursework that is done over the length of your subject is much better.

I'm glad I've been there and done it now, I hated school and university was merely a social exercise in alcohol consumption

[gurdas]

Originally posted by jamble7000
I hate exams, they're not a reflection on how well you know your subject but rather how well you can do in a one off sitting. Coursework that is done over the length of your subject is much better.

im quite opposite, i hate coursework and much prefer the exams.

[defuzz]

The problem wit exams is that theyt are suppossed to encourage you to spend a long time preparing in order to answer a range of possible questions but I for one spent a day for each of my exams cramming all the important info for a few possible questions and I did fine.

Coursework is no different, the best marks I got were when I wrote the essay the night before it was due (only possible with 3000 words or less essays)

[SJT]

pah, you could get 25% just by ticking box A all the way through in theory....

[]v[orpheus]

Originally posted by jamble7000
I hate exams, they're not a reflection on how well you know your subject but rather how well you can do in a one off sitting. Coursework that is done over the length of your subject is much better.

I know what you mean. One time I did a robotics course and the instructor was a guy I worked for on an IT project at IBM. Anyway, someone asked him if there was a test and he replied "I don't believe in tests. They teach you what you don't know."

[siriusss]

Compare the US to other countries, use me as an example if u want, i get like 95% right on an american test i pass evry year (TASS) yet in france i only get 12/20, barely enough to scrape through, (I speak both languages fluently so it is as easy for me to take a test in french or english (or spanish))
-Sirius(15)

[killabry]

Originally posted by gurdas

Originally posted by jamble7000
I hate exams, they're not a reflection on how well you know your subject but rather how well you can do in a one off sitting. Coursework that is done over the length of your subject is much better.

im quite opposite, i hate coursework and much prefer the exams.

I'm like that too.