Re: schools banning homework

morrisjcroy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Due to shorter attention spans, perhaps? On the other hand, they have to
do something to earn their keep as there are only so many scandals that
readers can handle.


I think it's very much due to people having shorter attention spans,
and perhaps a gradual increase in public apathy over many years.

Or being diverted by mind candy such as celebrity antics.



While I was working on my Ph. D., one of my fellow grad students noticed
that I belonged to Mensa. He claimed he had written an IQ test while he
served in the Forces, partly I suppose because he was always playing a game
of oneupmanship. When I offered to give him further information, he backed
off.


I think if I wrote an IQ exam "cold" right now, I probably wouldn't
score very high on it.

Neither would I.

Usually I have to practice by doing old exam
papers and/or cranking out similar types of problems out of problem
books.

I spent a few hours going over a sample GRE before writing it the second time.


It seems like many written exams which involve problem solving of some
sort, after awhile starts to become a huge exercise in pattern
recognition and identifying what particular techniques and/or tricks
to use. (Whether it's IQ, math, science, engineering, etc ... type
tests.)


Those were easy for me. It was the verbal relationship questions that often confused me. Often, they'd start with a story of some sort, but the question is on something completely different. I suppose it's an exercise to see if one can pay attention to what one's reading.
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