My exam today consists of 80 fill-in the blanks.
80 FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS?!!?!?!?!
What kind of ridiculuety is this?
Why not an essay response; or some short-answer written recreations of popular psychological experiments? Or even a Delayed-Matching-to-Sample (multiple-guess). But, fill in the blank? In no way can such an outrage be "comprehensive" or an "opporunity to display knowledge".
To do well on a fill-in-theblank exam, you must have razor-thin eclectic word recall.
(really, I'm bitter because i have an out-of-print edition of the textbook; meaning, the comprehensive, understanding-type stuff is the same, but the specific word usage [ie what my exam is based-upon] is slightly different)
However, fill-in-the-blank exams should be reserved for elementary school as they are excercises in monotony.
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