== Quote from dsimcha (dsim...@yahoo.com)'s article > == Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > > If there's one thing my > > > school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in > > > focusing on the low-to-mid-range students. > > That wasn't my college experience at all (Caltech). I was a > > low-to-mid-range student there > ...Which kind of proves the point that the way knowledge/learning in college > is > measured is pretty flawed in that it doesn't predict who will be successful > afterword. I just finished undergrad a couple years ago and I feel that the > kinds > of multiple choice exams you get in huge lecture-based classes are good at > testing > rote memorization and superficial understanding and the ability to get inside > the > professor's head, where as what's important is the ability to take your > knowledge > and apply it to something useful or use it to create more knowledge.
I definitely would try to avoid universities where multiple-choice tests are the norm (oddly, I've heard that UC Berkeley falls into this category, and as a result it's also apparently a haven for cheaters). I went back to finish my undergrad degree recently and despite being at a large state school the classes were all a reasonable size and the grades derived from a combination of homework and actual problem-solving quizzes and exams. Now a prospective employer may not know or care what format your classes followed, but I'd personally put more stock in a degree that was obtained from as few multiple-choice tests as possible.
