Monday, December 14, 2009

Extra Credit Blog

xtra Credit Blog: Why take a test? What is the purpose of a test? How do you study? Can you learn something during a test?


Personally I despise test. They are the worst invention. I would rather have projects. Yeah taking test do test what you learned and your ability of remembering what we did during the unit, but couldn't we be tested by a project and hitting key points of the unit your project?. studying for history is a little bit difficult because there is so much to study since we cover so much information. I sometimes study too broadly and not deep enough and then i get to a few of the multiple choice questions and i am screwed. I like when you give us what to study like the prompts and other things we will need to know for the test. I do not really believe you can learn things during a test but reviewing for test is where i learn the most. Tests are Test and every class has them


2 comments:

  1. Well, I am against tests as well, but studying for them is not always my problem......... You can jot down notes in class or look up the powerpoints that we have seen in class in order to find out the main points that you have to cover. The problem is the amount of material that you have to cover. There are so many main points that your brains turns upside trying to remember them all.

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  2. It is definitely the amount of material that sucks, and not the actual act of studying. With so much material, we tend to run out of time before covering everything. This only happens during finals though, so I don't really get why you have this problem with any regular test. Having these projects instead of a regular test would just stress us out even more because projects are just a lot more time consuming.

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