Off Topic 2015

[dubcity]

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Dont ask why/how it happened,but for some reason, this songs stuck in my head
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqDEJvWkMYU

Only good thing I can say about S Club is ... Rachel Stevens

[BurghFan]

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I've had both 4 and 5 answer multiple choice tests, but the "E" choice was often all/none of the above or some combination of 2 or 3 of choices a-d.

HS ya,its 4. But after it was 5. My prof even said their kid had a class where teacher gave them multiple choice from A to Z! Thats the most extreme test I've heard of lol. Spend half the time just reading a question

Probably actually a fill-in-the-blank section where you are given a list of possible answers which are lettered so you just have to right the letter instead of the entire word(s) in the blank.

[dickey1331]

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I've hardly seen 5 answers for a test. Always been 4 for me.

[mb625]

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Nah man there are still 4 answers for tests that use though sheets.

Naw. There's only one answer on those sheets. It's always C.

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[Majingir]

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The thing i hate about scantrons are how you never know what you got right or wrong. By that i mean,teachers take the question sheet back with the scantron. So when they give you your grade,you dont know which questions you got right or wrong.

That made finals harder for me. Not knowing what questions from midterm i got right,and what i need to improve on. That was a stupid school policy.

[RockinDaMike]

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Naw. There's only one answer on those sheets. It's always C.

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Just like in Summer School.

Speaking of Summer School, still one of the best scenes of all time of the 80's.

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[redsox4evur]

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The thing i hate about scantrons are how you never know what you got right or wrong. By that i mean,teachers take the question sheet back with the scantron. So when they give you your grade,you dont know which questions you got right or wrong.

That made finals harder for me. Not knowing what questions from midterm i got right,and what i need to improve on. That was a stupid school policy.

Yea that's definitely a school policy. I always get tests back. And when I used scantrons, from what I remember, the answers (for the ones I got wrong) were always on one of the sides in red.

[Majingir]

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Yea that's definitely a school policy. I always get tests back. And when I used scantrons, from what I remember, the answers (for the ones I got wrong) were always on one of the sides in red.

We got scantrons back,just not test. Like that meant anything. "I put A for 33,correct answer was C. Ill learn from my mistake." That meant absolutely nothing if i dont know the exact question/answers i got right or wrong.

It was a policy cause they wanted to prevent cheating. They use same test every semester,so they didnt want question/answers available to future classes taking the courses. They never wrote the test,they just teach the material.

[BurghFan]

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There are officially too many bowl games. With 40 games this year for 80 teams, there are currently only 75 teams with 6+ wins and 3 more (Kansas St., Georgia St., South Alabama) who can reach 6 wins next week. Thus, there will be at least 2 and possibly as many as 5 5-7 teams going bowling this year.

[BDKiiing]

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Pretty sure 90% of the exams I took in grade school, high school, and even college, I was only trying to get a good grade on the exam, not actually learn the material. I was purely memorize and regurgitate.

And we almost always got our exams back and could see what we got right and wrong, including scantron exams.

[Blzer]

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I was purely memorize and regurgitate.

I frown upon curricula that makes this even possible, especially in math classes.

The best tests are ones where every resource is made available for you (open note/book) and not automatically passable as a result. Nothing should ever be memorized. It proves you know how to pass a test, nothing more.

[Majingir]

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Exactly. That's the problem with schools. Its only about who got best memory,not who learns stuff the most.

I knew people who never once opened their book or did homework. They just had real good memory and remembers everything the teacher said,so thats all they did in the class,and got 90 in it. Meanwhile, others who spent hours a day on homework,still had trouble on tests.

I was always that person who could do homework real easily,but then blanked out on tests,cause i have horrible memory. Math for example, a 10 step question, i might know how to do all steps,but during test,even forgetting 1,costs you big time. If someone were to even say 2-3 words about the step im forgetting, suddenly i remembered it all again.

Remembering 100% of material sucks,getting mini pieces of reminders if you blank out,helps big time. Open book was a big mental thing. People who knew beforehand the test would be open book,were able to focus better,not stressing out over remembering every last detail

[TracerBullet]

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There are officially too many bowl games. With 40 games this year for 80 teams, there are currently only 75 teams with 6+ wins and 3 more (Kansas St., Georgia St., South Alabama) who can reach 6 wins next week. Thus, there will be at least 2 and possibly as many as 5 5-7 teams going bowling this year.

Slightly incorrect. If those three teams win next week (but they won't), we'll have enough. One of the 40 games is the championship. So only 78 teams are needed.

[Speedy]

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I frown upon curricula that makes this even possible, especially in math classes.

The best tests are ones where every resource is made available for you (open note/book) and not automatically passable as a result. Nothing should ever be memorized. It proves you know how to pass a test, nothing more.

I agree.

I heard of a mom that home schools her 9 year old boy and gives him the answers, let's him use a calculator for multiplication, etc.....she's handicapping her son and setting him up for failure.

[Gilley]

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Going through a break-up...listening to Black by Pearl Jam was probably not the best idea.