Re: Would like to find study group for computer science comprehensive exams.

Patricia Shanahan <pats@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Professors seem to be VERY concerned about how much you can
memorize for a few days - that gets tested along with just about
everything else through closed-book tests. I have no idea why.

I would put it a different way... we're concerned about
whether you have understood the material thoroughly. The best
way to do that is with a closed-book test. Unfortunately, for
every evaluation method that professors can use, there are
student techniques that subvert the intent. For closed-book
tests, one of those techniques is to cram. We're not testing
how good you are at cramming, but cramming turns out to be one
way of doing well on those tests.

If you would prefer an open-book test, you may not have
seen the creative ways in which students use the blank spaces in
a textbook... even at the graduate level.

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