Confessions on Yik Yak | am i the only person who thinks every major should be required to take a comprehensive exam that's like 4 hours long to get their degree... engineers, nurses, lawyers etc have to do that. why shouldn't everyone to prove they genuinely know the core ideas

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am i the only person who thinks every major should be required to take a comprehensive exam that's like 4 hours long to get their degree... engineers, nurses, lawyers etc have to do that. why shouldn't everyone to prove they genuinely know the core ideas

Anonymous 23h

Better yet. Rather than have multiple choice but essay driven and demonstrate and complete a project to the professor. That is how education was in the 50s. Administrators cut costs and devalued the education and say everything is fine.

Anonymous 22h

Well a lot of engineering schools have senior design projects which are better than an overly extensive exam that asks if the student remembers every concept from sophomore year thermodynamics. Also lawyers have the bar exam.

Anonymous 23h

For some majors that just wouldn’t really make sense (I go to art school so mostly thinking about those). Like yeah you should know the fundamentals of design and color and all that, but the finished concept and product is going to do a way better job at showing what you know than a multiple choice

Anonymous 18h

fun fact education majors have to take exams too - i have 7 i have to take before i can get my certif 😩

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#3 22h

Correct. Some majors still keep the old style. The administrators haven’t fully conquered all the majors. These holdouts prove how effective real education is. I believe AI will force schools to bring back the old styles because that is the only way to test to students or it’s the AI doing it.