Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief

Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by jcranmer on Sunday March 05, 2023 @03:16PM (#35033519)

> Yes I don’t give a shit about homework, I understand the material which is why I’m slaying each test. I hated that about college. We are adults. I’m paying to get an education, why the fuck is homework 20% of the grade? It’s practice, for people who don’t get the material.

So what you're admitting is that you are willing to not to do required parts of your job because you don't feel they're important. If you go out into the workforce and become a lawyer, what parts of your job are equally willing to blow off because you don't like them? Billing clients properly? Procedural stuff like filing answers properly?

You're basically arguing that your unwillingness to do the assigned tasks not be held against you.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by moomoo11 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @03:49PM (#35033787)

Homework being worth 20% is dumb for school.

Besides I worked the entire time in college to pay for college. Being penalized because I don’t have time to do homework without which I can’t pay for school helps nobody. I don’t think I ever got anything lower than a B on an exam, and nothing lower than A on a final/midterm/project.

And yeah, homework is for people who need it. Work and school are totally different one you’re learning the other you’re utilizing what you learned. Having homework be worth anything more than maybe 5% is stupid. I’m not getting paid to do homework, in fact I am paying to even learn.

People do homework and still fail. So what’s the point of homework?

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by 2snakes on Sunday March 05, 2023 @04:23PM (#35034087)

Learning theory of repetition and stretch goals have been found to help many trying to learn. Some sort of neuron network establishment neuroscientifically.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by neerajsi on Sunday March 05, 2023 @08:12PM (#35036298)

The point of homework is to help you learn the material. Okay, you didn't happen to need it. The point of _requiring_ the homework is so that the students who do need it actually do it and get something from the class. It has to be worth enough for they typicals to not total shirk it.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by moomoo11 on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:15AM (#35038031)

So outliers should just be allowed to have their future ruined because they can’t afford to do the homework? That’s BS.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by charlieyu1 on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:42PM (#35046542)

LSAT can be taken at 18. Discounting 2-3 years for a course and we have 15 year olds. Are we holding 15 year olds as liable as adults? That they must grind 3 years of course with full intensity while already dealing with teenage problems? Sounds like hell.

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