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Bazza

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Re: The Last Word

 

No; I just wrote an exam that's too long. I forgot that for this type of exam the time factor is 5, not 3.

 

To explain what I mean by that: I write an exam, print it out, then leave it aside for half a day. Then I sit down and take it, answering every question in the way I think it should be. I time myself.

 

For an essay exam, I have found that students take about 3 times as long as I do. But for problem-solving exams, it's a factor of 5, and I had forgotten that. So the exam that took me 20 minutes to do would take them about 100, not about 60. And they only get 55. Mistake on my part.

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