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November 20, 2005 - 03:13 AM
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ok
This post was edited on: 2007-02-21 at 12:01 AM by: Jenny-Lemalu
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Re: Why Exams???
November 21, 2005 - 04:07 AM
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Originally posted by Jenny-Lemalu
i think its not fair that we have to abuse our brains and all those late nite studies when in the end..it dont really help much...
what do you think????
Abusing our brains? I rather think of it as exercising them. 
I'm not too fond of exams either. At all. But I don't agree with you that they're a waste of time.
You can learn a lot from exams.
Not only is it a type of revision on what you have learnt, but it can measure how well you are in the subject, or how much more you need to work on it.
And the "80% of what we learn most of our time in school does not even apply when we finally get a job"...well okay. So lets concentrate on the 20% that does apply. What are the chances of you knowing the 20% that you know now, is what you would've remembered/learnt anyway?
The process in which you got that 20%...well it just came with an extra 80% of useless knowledge that your abused brain sorted out for you. It soaked in the knowledge, sifted through it all and knew what was relevant and what wasn't relevant, and discarded the rest.
But that 20% was broken up into little bits and pieces, and you wouldn't of learnt it otherwise had you had it been given to you all in one hit...because guess what? If you were to be taught the relevant 20% of Now back Then...80% of it would've been shave of it...leaving you with 20% of a whole lot less of quality info...
That's what a brain does.
But it can't do it's job if you haven't got the knowledge there for it to go through. It needs the masses and masses of useless facts and figures, and pearls of wisdoms, and thoughts and ideas...and the left over stuff that we don't need for our jobs?
Well that feeds our opinions, our ideas, our thoughts, our personality and character even.
You wouldn't of started this topic without all that information that you thought was irrelevant.
I can go on and on, the reasons just keep popping up in my head, but I think you just needed to vent out your frustration on the studying process before exams.
The lack of sleep, the boring facts, the staying-in while everyone else is out...etc.
Yeah.
Well. Things never come easy. You gotta put the hard work into it...
But of course, this is just my opinion for what it's worth.
Thank you for putting my brain to work on the subject, very interesting.
Go hard in your exams. You can do well if you choose to.
- Rerenga
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Re: Why Exams???
November 27, 2005 - 10:23 AM
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Why we have to study? Because of knowledge rite?
If it's really because of knowledge, we don't need to go to schools, to go to college. Just like Bill Gates, he quitted Harvard Uni but he never stops studying...
Be flexible, study continuously... because the only thing unchange is CHANGE
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Nguyen Thi Kim Anh
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exam? why not?
December 10, 2005 - 04:59 AM
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i used to think that it was not worth taking exams, what will go with us is experience, if studying is just reaing books, following some textbooks,and then our obligations for our schools are taking exams, getting enough score to pass,it isn't worth doing that. However, exams are meaningful more than we think. When we prepare for an exam, we have time to review what we leart, and we probably find something interesting that we didn't pay attention to during our classes. Well, you've got a point when saying that most of what we leart from school is not useful for our future work, but our knowledge is never " dead ", maybe we can use it for our future work, but we can use it for our daily life, share it with other pp like we're doing on board. But there's a problem that i've long thought about. that's the content of the exams, i'm doubtful that whether the content gives us a way to connect what we leart to our real life. I'm a language learner, what i need is practice but most of exams i did always gave a half of the content for theory like what is modifiers, what are steps to make a public speech...after the exam, i almost forgot these theories.In addition, extent for reviewing is in textbooks but the content of the exam is very different. I think we need a more- practising exams to make we more active, to connect us with our communities, to become useful for our future career and to remember for long last time.
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exams but!
December 11, 2005 - 10:14 AM
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the psychopedagogic methods develop from day to day, and the methods evaluation is inherente but with my opinion the studies should not base 80% on the examinations because one cannot judge the person in 6 or 8 hours of examenet it is preferables that the evaluation is on the field,right before the course, in this case one can hold 70% of the course and the remainder by revising.
as that the professor can know who retains more and also the students intelligence level .
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Re: Why Exams???
December 18, 2005 - 05:20 AM
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The concept of exams is good, in that it should theoretically motivate one to review what one has learnt and thus consolidate it in one's mind and be more likely to remember it. Thus, it should also be a good measure of what one HAS retained from a subject of course.
Obviously, the reality falls far short of this. People will cram the night before in order to get anything and everything into their short-term memories just to pass the exam, people get stressed about exams, and some people just can't be bothered studying. Exams may suit some people better than others: for me, cramming a year's work into however many hours an exam takes suits me, although some may find summarising concepts, knowledge etc in a few hours unrealistic, given that it takes a whole year to learn. Some people just don't like exams, period, for whatever reason. However they do have their merits.
Yes, a lot of things you learn will be irrelevant to your future life. However, to borrow the 20%-80% thing from Rerenga, you need the whole lot because you don't know which 20% that you learn is going to be useful. Things that may seem totally irrelevant now will be useful in later life. Honestly! I've been told this by people who I respect and look up to: School is NOT an absolute and utter waste of time, although some of it is, it is NOT totally useless.
If you have the drive to acquire knowledge for yourself, good on you. Some people don't, and that's why we have schools, to encourage people to learn and to know things...
I think this is getting a little confused, and I may be contradicting myself.
If so, I apologise. But that's my 5 cents.
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