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ruede

Exam Morality Junk

Apr 24, 2006 20:04

Ever get a question on an exam that pertains almost perfectly to a piece of work you'd examined throughout the year? Whether you'd written an essay on it, or what not? Do you ever feel guilty about using it during the exam, thinking it would be more proper to use a work you haven't thoroughly examined ( Read more... )

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skatche April 25 2006, 03:11:36 UTC

If you were handing it in as a paper, that might be morally dubious. But an exam is really only there to test what you know. And if what you know on a particular subject happens to come almost exclusively from one source, that's the information you use. *Shrug*

ruede April 25 2006, 09:59:16 UTC

True say. : )

Thanks again for everything, lately.

Long-winded, but... miss_mellie April 25 2006, 03:51:54 UTC

I honestly never thought about it before my Early Modern Lit prof made a rule that we couldn't write on the same topic on the exam. Of course, then we also had the benefit of having the questions two days early.

I don't see why you should feel bad about it, because as long as the prof/ta's know what they're doing, the questions won't be even close to the same as the ones we wrote on. I think it is impressive if we can write about one book from more than one angle. It shows you were really paying attention to OTHER aspects of the book as well as the ones you were explicitly told to focus on in your essay. ... especially if it's a comparative question between a text you HAVE done and one you haven't. Fresh angle.

I figure the prof/T.A. would tell us if they objected to that... and I don't know about your other exams, but when it comes to the ENG202 one don't worry... we explicitly asked our T.A. and she said there was no such rule for that class. She even looked SURPRISED that we were asking.

Re: Long-winded, but... miss_mellie April 25 2006, 03:53:16 UTC

er, in the first section: when I said "the same topic" I meant "the same text".

Re: Long-winded, but... slovik April 25 2006, 04:03:03 UTC

that avatar, is so, soooo funny.

I was like, what is that *squints* then I started to laugh.

Good times.

*stolen*

Re: Long-winded, but... ruede April 25 2006, 09:58:19 UTC

*LAUGHS* ME TOO. That is the fucking -funniest- avatar I've ever seen. I'm in stitches!!!!

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Re: I say... ruede April 25 2006, 09:58:50 UTC

*smiles*

(How's your work coming along?)

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Re: I say... ruede April 26 2006, 16:05:08 UTC

Awh. Well, I just finished skimming an entry of yours, and... 11k words? Not like that's peanuts. It's difficult to make 6 thousand words brilliant, never mind that many. Best of luck finishing off. *huggle*