Comments on: First two exams done!

By: Thomas Mølhave

Thomas Mølhave — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:38:24 +0000

Good luck with the last exam, and keep updating your site during the summer - we are curious.

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:40:48 +0000

You’re right — I certainly like oral exam best too! And I would also have preferred to have the exams spread out a little so that I would have been able to concentrate on them better.

Another problem with the multiple choise exams is that you have very little chance of explaining yourself — you either get it right or wrong. That makes them very unreliable since they only take a small sample of your knowledge, like, you get two questions about “Path Coverage”, two about “Inherietance” and so on.

My strength with the oral exams has always been that I’m able to give the examiner the impression that I know and understand the subject. That’s harder when you’re only being judged on single binary answers.

By: Mikkel

Mikkel — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:27:49 +0000

I see what you mean, but two exams in one day is already too much if you ask me. I guess I just like the traditional oral exams the most - they don’t take very long, it’s easier to explain what you know and you get the result right away.

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:40:39 +0000

Well… multiple choise exams are also quicker to answer for us students, if that counts? Having two written exams on a single day would have been a pain if they had been the four-hour long ones we usually have in Denmark.

By: Mikkel

Mikkel — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:37:36 +0000

I don’t like multiple choice exams at all. What’s wrong with traditional exams, and why should multiple choice exams be any better? The fact that they are easier to grade does NOT count.

Well, it doesn’t matter, I hope all goes well with your exams.