@silhouette@dumbfuckingweb.site
Post #2731042
2026-05-14 12:55 UTC
@danirabbit@mastodon.online I've had the discussion so many times that grades are nothing but a snapshot of your current knowledge of often very specific points at the point in time of taking the exam.
Luckily, knowledge isn't static and you are allowed to get better, learn, adapt and even break with convention at times. Our current way of imparting and testing for knowledge is deeply flawed in my opinion.
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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-05-14 17:28
@silhouette@dumbfuckingweb.site @danirabbit@mastodon.online Also be cognizant of how such evaluations may be used to filter out people or used to achieve an agenda. Computer science aptitude testing used to have test questions like "add together this long list of numbers in your head in 45 seconds". (Handy to filter out the poor, women, & immigrants). Even then, people used calculators to add up numbers. People can have a perfectly fine career in IT without being a mathematical mental acrobat. 1/