Timeline for Should students have access to past exams or an exam bank?
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| S Aug 10, 2019 at 21:01 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| S Aug 2, 2019 at 19:10 | history | bounty started | Shamisen Expert | ||
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| Aug 2, 2019 at 13:54 | comment | added | Fabian Röling | For the majority of this question I thought you meant their own past exams, which they should definitely have access to (but that sadly isn't done everywhere). You might want to reword that a bit to make it clearer. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 9:20 | comment | added | Tasos Papastylianou | I feel the same about driving lessons. Surely it's cheating to sit a driving exam when you've been shown how to drive before! (sarcasm). | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 0:25 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "only a small number of students had access to an exam around that was given around 5 years ago (literally gotten through one of the student's relatives who took the exams years before)" - please clarify: Where the other students somehow prevented from talking to those 5 students, and did none of the others, not a single one, have a chance to get in touch with anyone else who had taken that exam in the past 5 years? Otherwise, it would seem to me that in fact, all students had access to knowledge about old exams, but most didn't make the effort to retrieve it. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 22:32 | answer | added | Stian | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 22:25 | comment | added | einpoklum | I had this course with Professor would give the exact same (two) exams every time he gave the course. And still most people would fail. In fact, some people who took the course a second time didn't do that great either... | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 19:08 | answer | added | Jeutnarg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 18:55 | history | protected | Federico Poloni | ||
| Aug 1, 2019 at 18:06 | answer | added | Count Iblis | timeline score: -4 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | gparyani | Related: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/126353/… | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 6:50 | comment | added | Giacomo Alzetta | Why would having access to old exams be a problem? Which subjects are you thinking about? Because in STEM subjects it's pretty much irrelevant... you can always write new exercises or disguise old stuff in a new envolope. So dumb students, that simply learn by heart questions& answers, will fail but this will not be a problem for proper students that actually study understanding the subject instead of just memorizing specific exercises. And if your whole subject can be reduced at learning by heart few exercises/questions than there isn't really that much to test in an exam anyway... | |
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| Jul 31, 2019 at 21:17 | answer | added | ZeroTheHero | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 20:02 | answer | added | Reese Johnston | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jul 31, 2019 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1156535104329662464 | ||
| Jul 31, 2019 at 11:16 | answer | added | mmmmmm | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 10:49 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 9:32 | answer | added | QuantumChris | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 9:31 | comment | added | Solar Mike | Possible duplicate : academia.stackexchange.com/q/19477/72855 | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 9:00 | answer | added | DakkVader | timeline score: 10 | |
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| Jul 31, 2019 at 0:10 | answer | added | Not a grad student | timeline score: 5 | |
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