Re: Testing job applicants

[genew@shuswap.net (Gene Wirchenko)]

z80@ds1.com (Peter) wrote:

>>How is reliable cheating possible without illegally (typically
>>by breaking and entering) getting hold of the exam papers or
>>model answers?   You can still cheat by looking over someone
>>else's answers in the exam room, but that's seldom worthwhile
>>(if the question's so difficult you don't have a clue, chances
>>are the person whose answers you can see can't do it correctly
>>either) and easy to detect.

     Consider your position on the clueness bell curve.  Pretty bad,
eh?  Chances are anyone else is in better shape.

     OTOH, since they aren't cheating, maybe that's the way to go.
<g>

>The normal way to cheat in exams is to have a piece of paper with
>formulae etc written on it, but that gets a lot less useful in higher
>education.
>
>I don't think the problem with final exams is cheating; I think the
>problem with taking all the marking from final exams is that you could
>be a damn capable person but be one who fucks up in an exam when you
>know that so much in your life depends on the next 3 hours. In real
>life, combat etc situations excepted, one doesn't ever solve problems
>that way (must be done in 3 hours and you can't talk to anyone, refer
>to any books, etc), so why do we have exams?

     I've done open book exams.  They were the toughest ones and the
ones I liked the best.  In RL, you get to look up the formula if you
don't have it memorized.  Why not in exams?

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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