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College courses have long been structured to incentivize rote memorization and regurgitation over actual critical thinking and understanding. When i was in college the "honors" students literally had filling cabinets with a decade of old tests for every class in their dormatory. I'll admit llms have probably made it even worse, but the slide of colleges into worthless degree mills has been inexorably progressing for like 40 years at this point.
I Learned discrete math, got an A, didn't learn a damn thing.
I tutored my wife in Trigonometry, which I fucking hate and have never gotten more than a C in, and she got an A. She also hates trig and math in general. It's basically a measure of whose memory and work ethic is best.
Exactly. Studying with people who understood less but could remember the magic words to ace tests was an exercise in frustration
The term bulimia learning has been used for well over a decade now to describe that cramming before an exam only to immediately forget all of it afterwards too. Testing in education is fundamentally broken and has been for a long time.
it's been heading in the opposite direction, fortunately, if collegeboard is to be representative