Me, I prefer Essay tests, because I dont have to sit there and memorize tons of potentially useless information. For a nessay test I can show a general understanding about a subject and if i dont remember a specific date but a time period or whatnot, I can go into that instead.
Its great.
Didn't attend class? Just guess and get a B on the final.
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Somthor attempted to be funny by writing:
i prefer Oral exams
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Vallo had this to say about Pirotess:
He said oral! Ho ho ho! What a great innuendo!
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So yeah, I prefer long answers. Especially when you have to draw diagrams. I love those.
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He said oral! Ho ho ho! What a great innuendo!
Hey smartass, can you find things Somthor's posted that made sense and didn't have an alternate meaning of some sort?
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Hey smartass, can you find things Somthor's posted that made sense and didn't have an alternate meaning of some sort?
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Me, I prefer Essay tests, because I dont have to sit there and memorize tons of potentially useless information. For an essay test I can show a general understanding about a subject and if i dont remember a specific date but a time period or whatnot, I can go into that instead.
I liked Essay Tests in perhaps middle school because, yes, you can bs them an do fine. In the IB essays are graded by a specific number of points. (ie You should have these 6 topics in it and you get points for how many you accurately describe)
Thus essays, instead of being a bser's dream, became a ****fest of simply memorizing topics and subtopic from reading lectures etc.
The most efficient type of test is 50% multiple choice (ie maybe 5 hard questsions worth 5 points total) and an essay worth another 5 points... not the most fun to take, but certainly they test ones knowledge.
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I liked Essay Tests in perhaps middle school because, yes, you can bs them an do fine. In the IB essays are graded by a specific number of points. (ie You should have these 6 topics in it and you get points for how many you accurately describe)Thus essays, instead of being a bser's dream, became a ****fest of simply memorizing topics and subtopic from reading lectures etc.
The most efficient type of test is 50% multiple choice (ie maybe 5 hard questsions worth 5 points total) and an essay worth another 5 points... not the most fun to take, but certainly they test ones knowledge.
IB tests. I remember those.
Only one I did well on was French. I think I got a 6 on that.
Only real thing I learned in IB was how to BS and make the teachers love me. Arttemis fucked around with this message on 04-03-2004 at 11:58 AM.
The kind I prefer would probably be short answer. Usually I remember so much about the subject that filling out a short answer is cake. Multiple choice are okay... if they don't get out of hand. By that I mean that long/many mc questions can bore me to where I can't even look at the test. I feel the need to get up and move around but I can't. 
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ACES! Another post by Fazum'Zen Fastfist:
He said oral! Ho ho ho! What a great innuendo!
In your end-o!
And I like the essay test, as long as I know what the essay needs to be on. After that, it's multiple choice.
Multiple choice is boring and short answer keeps me from going in-depth on the subject.
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Essay tests are the best, because no matter what the subject is, I can always bullshit my way to an A.
You can't do that in intelligent classes though, because they grade you based on how much you bullshit. Instead, you have to bullshit how much you bullshit.
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Multiple choice, essay, long/short answer, whatever... So long as very little to no effort is required on my part, it's a good test. 
