03-09-2020, 01:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-09-2020, 01:06 PM by ppppenguin.)
When I was at school I always thought that multiple choice exams were too easy. One of my A Level chemistry papers was multiple choice and we had something like 90 minutes to do it. I finished in under 20 minutes, including checking a couple of times. Fortunately they allowed me leave the exam room rather than sit around bored. If I got any questions wrong it was accidentally, I was sufficiently on top of the subject to know when I had the right answers.
I don't think we had any multi choice exam papers at university. You were expected to write answers that showed that you understood what you were doing. Which is great if you actually do understand, hopeless if you don't.
With something like that varicap question it's a matter of reading the answers carefully so as not to be caught out. I know the answer and know that I know. If you see what I mean. In many multichoice questions, a couple of the answers are obviously wrong, which makes it quicker and easier to get it right.
Badly written questions, like the transistor bias one, are a PITA because you know better than the examiner. You have to work out what they meant, in their simplistic way and choose that answer.
I don't think we had any multi choice exam papers at university. You were expected to write answers that showed that you understood what you were doing. Which is great if you actually do understand, hopeless if you don't.
With something like that varicap question it's a matter of reading the answers carefully so as not to be caught out. I know the answer and know that I know. If you see what I mean. In many multichoice questions, a couple of the answers are obviously wrong, which makes it quicker and easier to get it right.
Badly written questions, like the transistor bias one, are a PITA because you know better than the examiner. You have to work out what they meant, in their simplistic way and choose that answer.
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