What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League education

Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by WalterBright on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:06PM (#15289233)

I've never understood how someone could master a topic yet could not answer questions about it. I know from my own personal experience that when I bombed an exam, it's because I simply did not understand the material. When I did well on an exam, I had corresponding confidence that I understood it.

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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by ahelwer on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:54PM (#15289475)

It is the difference between knowing "given a task in this knowledge area, I can accomplish it" and uselessly loading up on all that information to perform in a purely artificial situation the likes of which is never seen again.

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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by axedwool on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:00PM (#15290191)

So, good preparation for how interviews work, then?

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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by plandis on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @09:22PM (#15290049)

Conversely, I was able to pass (with As) some physics exams without really understanding. That became painfully obvious in my solid-state physics lab class.

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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by empath75 on Sunday September 24, 2017 @02:43PM (#15325898)

Memorizing a bunch of facts doesn’t demonstrate understanding of a topic.

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