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From: night@pawl3.pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Keywords: losers, responsibility, 90%, crap, 98%
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Date: 6 Jan 89 01:02:14 GMT
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In article <9208@ut-emx.UUCP> nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>I won't get started on multiple-choice testing ...
>

I guess you never had a multiple choice test like the one I had for
my computer organization and logic design final.  There were 76 multiple
choice questions divided into 1-, 2-, and 3-point questions.  Every
question had 5 choices, the last of which was none of the above.  And
if the choice was none of the above, you had to fill in the correct 
answer.  Very few of these were trivial questions either, even among
the 1-pointers.

As I remember, everyone stayed the full 3 hours (except the clueless few
who gave up after an hour and a half).  You had to know the material
well, and work fast if you expected to get a decent grade. 
--
Trip Martin
night@pawl.rpi.edu
night@paraguay.acm.rpi.edu