"marshknute" (marshknute)
05/04/2019 at 18:27 • Filed to: None
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"marshknute" (marshknute)
05/04/2019 at 18:27 • Filed to: None | 1
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I’m studying for my architecture licensure exams, and am becoming infuriated at one specific type of recurring question: the “select all that apply” questions.
You typically have to choose 4 correct answers out of 6 options...but there’s no partial credit. I almost always get 3/4 of the correct answers...which means I get the whole question wrong despite knowing a passing majority of the answers. These questio ns make up like 25% of the exam, so I’m pretty much guaranteed to get a quarter of the exam wrong.
Meanwhile, you only need to score like a 60% to pass the exam. So it’s OK if I get 40% of the questions wrong, but not OK if I get just 25% of a multi-part question wrong?
Does anyone else feel like that’s bullshit?
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Spanfeller is a twat
> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 18:33 |
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Ah I hate those too and the chemistry faculty at my college loves them. They take pride in having the lowest passing rate of any faculty and the biggest gap between standardized tests and teacher-made tests
AestheticsInMotion
> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 18:43 |
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Those are bad, but not as bad as the ones where you get 0 points for no answer, and negative points for a wrong answer.
wafflesnfalafel
> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 18:48 |
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A gree - the whole science of test creation is largely not based on demonstration of skill, rather picking out those folks to most closely answer as other “successful” or “smart” people have answered. My father did some of that work on high school tests for a while, (he had a psych/stat back ground.)
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> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 19:04 |
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Yeah that’s BS. IMO the best multiple choice format, is 5 choices with the last one being “none of the above”. It’s fair for the student, but also lowers the odds of getting a lucky guess correct, especially
in math. Since if your answer is
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, you won’t know if you made a small mistake, and are slightly off from the right answer, or if you did it right, and the correct answer is “None of the above”.
AfromanGTO
> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 19:06 |
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That is because some jackass professor wants to weed out some of the class so they reach the fail % that they determined to be appropriate. That was decided by some fuckheads on a committee to make it harder to get into some programs. However if you join the “blah” group and do volunteer work you will magically make a significantly higher grade. It is all bull shit.
Tekamul
> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 19:23 |
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In college, I had a machine language midterm that had a question (1 of the 3 that made up the whole exam ) that required writing a program by hand on paper. The only grading results for that question were 100% or 0%, because it either worked or didn’t. I missed a single push command (in, like, 4 0 lines of handwritten commands) and got a 0% on that question.
I hated that class.
My bird IS the word
> Spanfeller is a twat
05/04/2019 at 20:02 |
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Failing students mean you failed as a teacher.
DarkMinun
> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 20:45 |
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Do you at least get the mark if you answer correctly?
My licensing exam for Fire Alarms had a bunch of traditional multiple-choice, pick one questions with 2 correct answers. Sometimes they were different (depending on variables which were not covered in the question), and sometimes they were literally identical. Only one of them would get the marks.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> My bird IS the word
05/04/2019 at 20:45 |
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The teachers are great... its the admins on the other hand...
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Spanfeller is a twat
> Tekamul
05/04/2019 at 20:46 |
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Ah my teacher did the same for programming.
It was a winner take-all C program by hand ... very basic... no pointers or files... but still scared the shit out of everyone and scarred me for life.
TheJWT
> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 21:02 |
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Never knew you were an architect! I haven’t taken the tests, but I’ve heard bad things...
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> marshknute
05/04/2019 at 22:00 |
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Check out black spectacle videos on YouTube. I found them to be so helpful that I subscribed to the site for a few exams
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> marshknute
05/05/2019 at 11:41 |
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Super bullshit. What a dumb way to test people.