• Ech@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Adding context, the nearly-perfect-marks midterm was a take-home exam. Not that chatbots aren’t a big problem in schools right now, but this same thing would’ve happened 15 years ago.

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      3 days ago

      Not the same at all.

      Take home tests are usually formatted in a way where it doesn’t matter if the student has access to textbooks, or even the internet, since they still need to synthesize a response (thinking specifically of essay questions here, but it’s not exclusive to them) that shows they understood the material.

      LLMs can now do that now. Or at least emulate that.

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      Depends on the material. We had quasi take home exams in math because there was no reasonable expectation for you to be able to determine a series of proofs in an hour. We’d get a list of like 8-12 problems and like 5 would be on the exam for you to regurgitate your proof.

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        we had take final exam in a animal physio, but it gave a time limit so you cant just sit around searching google to look at all the answers. Also its done it a away its hard to search for the answers, and this was 10+years ago