Re:You can't tell people anything
by hyperthesis on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:31AM
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Intriguing. I think you'd also have a pacer of keeping up with the students taking classes, and excitement to prove your idea worked.
Things are complex: different students, lecturers, subject matters.
I did the opposite: only attended lectures (no study, no textbook, no exercises), but actively listened, thinking about it from different points of view in the lecture - and got the top mark, with a 5% gap to the next one. (But TBF I'd also primed myself, by sitting a previous exam under exam conditions, for motivation and guidance. I also spent half an afternoon before the exam, checking the text on four things I was unsure of, and one thing I didn't get at all.)
Maybe a lot of it is just engagement? Most students aren't interested. Even if they push themselves to the utmost, it's hard to compete with actual interest. It brings a different quality of attention.
Things are complex: different students, lecturers, subject matters.
I did the opposite: only attended lectures (no study, no textbook, no exercises), but actively listened, thinking about it from different points of view in the lecture - and got the top mark, with a 5% gap to the next one. (But TBF I'd also primed myself, by sitting a previous exam under exam conditions, for motivation and guidance. I also spent half an afternoon before the exam, checking the text on four things I was unsure of, and one thing I didn't get at all.)
Maybe a lot of it is just engagement? Most students aren't interested. Even if they push themselves to the utmost, it's hard to compete with actual interest. It brings a different quality of attention.