>the exam questions will all be based on questions from the textbook
Why is this allowed?
Since when did academia start rewarding rote memorization over actual comprehension?
The exam questions will all be based on questions from the textbook
Oliver Torres
Carson Cox
Is there any university in the US that does it right? As in, what universities used to be 100 years ago?
Jordan Powell
It's all about the money now-a-days I guess.
Jason Diaz
>Why is this allowed?
Since when did academia start rewarding rote memorization over actual comprehension?
For thousands of years, why did you think it was ever different? Education is not an easy thing to develop.
Jayden Lee
>Take home final.
>Question 1 asks you to summarize a page of the textbook.
>Question 2 challenges you to find a minute detail in the text.
>Question 3 asks you to summarize a chapter.
Fuck that professor. Other professor gives fifteen essay questions that require you to do something with the material. I.e., critique the analogy given in this chapter, speculate on this or that.
I think the answer to your question lies in the skill of the professor, OP. Some professors may not be comfortable enough with the material to make their own questions.
Wyatt Turner
as opposed to basing it off questions in penthouse magazine?
Josiah Gray
>required readings
>exams based on the book problems
>professor wrote the textbook
>can't do shit because tenured
Jacob Bennett
>Why don't you just do the homework, user? That's so lazy! You should be doing 2 hours of homework per class per day, you know~! :^)
Every fucking time.
I would have done the homework regardless, bitch. I just don't want my mark to be based on the fact that I didn't do question #341 in the textbook and Retard McGee did.
Elijah Long
What should they be based on? Where are you learning from? Surely not the professor. Do you think the professor learned Calculus directly from Newton and Leibniz?
Carson Young
They shouldn't be "based" on anything. The teacher should be coming up with their own questions.
Having questions be based on questions from the textbook doesn't test for whether or not a student actually understands the material. It tests for whether or not they've done the homework. Being good at doing homework is not the same as being good at the subject you're learning.
Sure, doing homework typically makes you better at the subject you're learning, but basing questions on the textbook just puts the cart before the horse. It gives people who do homework better marks just because they remember the homework questions, not because doing the homework made them better at their subject.