UNIVERSITY students have been whingeing over plans to bring back traditional in-person exams.
Students at several institutions, including Oxford, say they would prefer online exams in which they can use books and consult notes, rather than have to ‘memorise large quantities of information.’
Isn’t memorising large quantities of information what exams are all about? I’d love to have had access to books and notes when I sat my exams decades ago. I would have got far better results, I am sure. Sadly I had to shut myself away for hours, do what they call ‘revise’, and rely on my brain.
As one academic rightly says, online exams ‘open the door to manipulation and downright cheating.’ Universities should return to proper exams immediately.
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