Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman.
There’s a place in hell, just above invading hordes and dog-fight promoters, for people who devise multiple-choice quizzes.
These tests have a reputation for being easy but the chance of a lucky guess out of five choices is a sorry 20%—five should be a legal limit.
They like to build in gotcha tricks that are quicksand for students who studied but not quite enough and abandoned streets at night for kids who memorize but don’t understand
The term “non-cumulative” didn’t mean anything to me until it was combined with “exam.” A beautiful combination of words. You get tested only on what was covered since the last test, not from the beginning of the course. If this is the “dumbing down” of American education, then dumb away.
I watch professors watching us being tested. They’re being tested too. Nobody leaves this room alive without getting a grade.
