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XORDYH
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 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:08 pm |
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| Churippu wrote: |
When I find my graphology book I am going to look at this thread and know every little detail about each and every one of you.
It is quite scary how much I can get out of your handwriting. |
I wonder how that holds up for someone who has suffered a permanent injury and thus writes differently than they would otherwise? |
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XORDYH
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:38 pm |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| One of the only refreshing things about law school is that every test is completely open book, because any other way of taking a test is utterly retarded. |
Every test for every course should be like this. It's the mark of a good test, if, even having the textbook available, you can still fail if you didn't bother to understand the material beforehand.
Conversely, you shouldn't be required to memorize information that is easily researchable in an everyday setting. |
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XORDYH
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:33 pm |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| Especially when such a huge part of law is research in the first place. Any lawyer is always going to have all the materials available that he needs. The only exception is during oral argument. I keep saying we should have oral exams. |
I was going to say that I would think they would test this, but I guess since not every person that gets a law degree is going to be a trial lawyer it isn't entirely necessary. |
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XORDYH
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:19 pm |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| ssj-xordyh wrote: |
| CubaLibre wrote: |
| Especially when such a huge part of law is research in the first place. Any lawyer is always going to have all the materials available that he needs. The only exception is during oral argument. I keep saying we should have oral exams. |
I was going to say that I would think they would test this, but I guess since not every person that gets a law degree is going to be a trial lawyer it isn't entirely necessary. |
I guess, but I think oral examinations should be a much larger part of education in general. They're certainly far more useful for assessing a student's knowledge than locking them in a room with a pencil for an hour. |
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I wouldn't consider a civil engineer who is a whiz at designing bridges on paper to lack knowledge simply because he's bad at giving oral presentations. Or what about people who are better visual or tactile learners than auditory learners. They are going to be better at presenting material in the format that they are better at learning it in. |
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