Timeline for What is the appropriate response to students who peek at the exam questions before the exam starts?
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| Oct 15, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | Count Iblis | So, what you want is for your students to study the topic, tackle the interesting problems that usually would be too time consuming for an exam question. So, you work with a system that lets the students practice with such difficult and interesting problems, and you tell the students that the exam problems will be easier, if they stick to your program, they will find the exam to be very easy. The alternative would boil down to making the exam more challenging, which would steer students toward practicing exam-like questions instead of learning the topic properly. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Count Iblis | @arp, I guess this will depend on the subject. In my field (physics), an exam only indirectly tests the skills of a student. Failing to pass the exam is evidence that a student didn't master the topic, but you can pass the exam without having the skills that you should have after having studied the topic. The exam questions must be doable within a couple of hours, while the future Ph.D. student would, hopefully, be able to take on big projects. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 14:06 | comment | added | arp | I once had a professor who took exactly the opposite approach -- their exams were notoriously too long to finish in the allotted time. There was always a suggestion at the top to skim through the exam and select questions to work on that reflected your strengths, and skip questions you were less prepared for. | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 22:55 | history | answered | Count Iblis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |