#Exams

You know how everything is shit at the moment. It's scary and feels out of our control. Imagine being a teenager, having to navigate this world, while your hormones are
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I interacted with 100+ students in the past week, all of them from class 11/Science. Here are some observations : Percentages are approximate. 1. 80% of students have never heard
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This semester, I conducted one-on-one oral exams through video chat for my software project management / agile methods course. It was one of the most informative and depressing things I've
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Or, try this: give the students all the possible exam questions in advance, so that they can study them, and then have your exam be a randomized selection of those
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#Thread Without realising it I often overdo things, which results in triumph or disaster, sometimes both. Here are some personal, autistic reflections on a lifetime spent “overdoing it”.#AllAutistics#autistic#autism 1/ The
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A quick thread on Dutch university admissions in this coronavirus year, for comparison to the #ALevelsResults debacle. Admissions here are, even in normal years, completely different. As long as you
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An FOI request I made showed that the Minister for Education's first consideration after learning about the errors in the LC calculated grades system was self-preservation & spinhttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/departm
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THREADThere's a question I get asked all the time as a maths teacher:"When am I ever going to use this in real life?" "I'm making you smarter" or "How do
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Resources for online learning!I made comments about how my outlook on assessment had changed over lockdown. I will be writing a reflection on this for @ChatPhysics http://chatphysics.org  and hosting a
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Exams that involve essay writing require so much more than memorizing facts in order to prepare. These types of exams can be tricky to study for, but here are a
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I feel like this is important to talk about:When I applied to Cambridge, I’ve been going through quite a rough patch and because of a physical injury I couldn’t take
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Recently – as both an educator and a parent – I’ve been thinking about assessing things by formal, timed examinations (closed book/open book). A thread follows-> The main value that
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So my univ #srmist is going to held the endsem exams from 16th. Here's what's wrong: (1) The examination platform is @CodeTantra, launched and approved this year itself by UGC
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THREAD:The 2021 #SQA exams were cancelled today, to the surprise of many – but this story has been brewing for a long time. Let us take you back nearly nine
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DU Exams: hearing on a petition challenging the University's decision to conduct online Open Book Exam begins before the Single Bench of Justice Prathiba Singh at Delhi HC@Delhiuniversit #DelhiUniversity #DUExams
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It’s been another big day for educational news… here’s everything you need to know from today’s announcement (1/12) Let’s start with @ofqual: the chief regulator said that different qualifications would
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