This semester I learned most of my freshmen had never taken an exam on which only one attempt was allowed.
I am… deeply frustrated with our education system.
High schools that offer students exam retakes are seriously impinging on students’ ability to succeed in college.https://x.com/HKBradshaw/status/1870975068635054588?t=7YUeh8YU8DgwKajCJKd9rA&s=19
This explains a lot. I’ve been wondering why Freshmen expect to be able to rewrite the exam before even taking a look at the corrections. It makes no sense because if you don’t have a skill, you can rewrite a hundred times, and it won’t help.
But yes, it’s some sort of a new technique they are doing in high schools where you get endless retakes until you somehow stumble into a better grade.
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I agree as someone who works in a lot of high schools, this is a really bad idea. In college you cannot take the exam again, you have to pass the first time. High schools are setting up the kids for failure if they let them take the exam twice, they’re going to learn the hard way. Letting students retake exams to pass them is like randomly throwing balls at one of those carnival games to win prizes, you might win something eventually but it would have been better if you aimed correctly in the first place
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I had no idea this was happening but now I realize that this has been going on for a while. It’s such a strange approach. We keep delaying adulthood for students under the assumption that they will fall apart if they encounter any rigor or standards. This is the opposite of preparing them for the real world where nobody cares how hard you tried and how much time you spent on a task.
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This is so bizarre to me. The only time I’ve ever been able to “retake” an exam was in college, and that wasn’t actually retaking it—to get something like a quarter of points or half points back you had to take every question you got wrong and find the right answer and explain why your first answer was wrong in the first place. These were physics exams, which is partly why these revisions existed.
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I hear the military is now, or preparing to in the near future, offering test-prep courses in order to allow people to retake the ASVAB. They think it’ll get their recruiting numbers up.
What could possibly go wrong?
-methylethyl, from a different machine.
Also ran across this article on Russian ball bearings and the war, which might be of interest:
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/20241225028.aspx#gsc.tab=0
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A very interesting article, thank you!
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