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They want to make certain you have a thorough understanding of the material. The questions will have at least one nearly undetectable difference (except to those who have mastered the material) and only one will be 100% correct in every nuance.
Assuming this is what they're doing, I think this does not have the overall effect they're going for. First of all (and I think this completely disqualifies the aforementioned tactic's validity), I would never shoot for mastery of material of things my first time around (especially in college given that that's what a MASTER'S program is supposed to be for, if we're to use english words as they're defined and meant to be used), and I think most people would do this. That being said, this sort of question takes up a valuable slot for another question on the exam for a question that would test something you know and quantify it, therefore honing in on what you don't know (assuming there is something you don't know, which is the whole point of asking questions properly). If they write the type of question I wrote in this description - they're getting zero information about what you know in relation to that question's information. Which is a complete failure of the entire premise of an examination of knowledge and understanding for each time a student incorrectly answers a question like that, since you don't know what they do and don't know. I'd be interested in any refutation of this rebuttal.
Secondly, even if it's valid to test someone's mastery on the first examination of that material, then when did the pre-mastery examinations com einto play to achieve the premise mentioned in the previous paragraph? The fact that this point is so frequently violated demands ulterior motives for asking "master level" questions on any exam in a non-master's level setting - it simply has no logical basis, and there's some other reason that they're doing that.
Lastly, what if I made an exam without those "mastery level" questions. What would you say the difference is between the two, and what effect would that have?
The point is, that those questions don't belong anywhere where information is being learned for the first time. Why would they?
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[–] ClandenCTrake [S] ago (edited ago)
Assuming this is what they're doing, I think this does not have the overall effect they're going for. First of all (and I think this completely disqualifies the aforementioned tactic's validity), I would never shoot for mastery of material of things my first time around (especially in college given that that's what a MASTER'S program is supposed to be for, if we're to use english words as they're defined and meant to be used), and I think most people would do this. That being said, this sort of question takes up a valuable slot for another question on the exam for a question that would test something you know and quantify it, therefore honing in on what you don't know (assuming there is something you don't know, which is the whole point of asking questions properly). If they write the type of question I wrote in this description - they're getting zero information about what you know in relation to that question's information. Which is a complete failure of the entire premise of an examination of knowledge and understanding for each time a student incorrectly answers a question like that, since you don't know what they do and don't know. I'd be interested in any refutation of this rebuttal.
Secondly, even if it's valid to test someone's mastery on the first examination of that material, then when did the pre-mastery examinations com einto play to achieve the premise mentioned in the previous paragraph? The fact that this point is so frequently violated demands ulterior motives for asking "master level" questions on any exam in a non-master's level setting - it simply has no logical basis, and there's some other reason that they're doing that.
Lastly, what if I made an exam without those "mastery level" questions. What would you say the difference is between the two, and what effect would that have?
The point is, that those questions don't belong anywhere where information is being learned for the first time. Why would they?