[ radio nerd stuff ] it's getting to the point in my studying for this exam that I don't need to read the question ...
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I just know what the correct answer is via the multiple choice options
is it because the wrong answers are too obvious?
it's also because my brain is a pattern recognition machine and I'm looking for the right shape of the answer given the question
oh these words are used - these words then have to be used
this is less useful for all the ones where I have to memorize the gorram numbers for frequencies
but if they're talking about x they're always going to be using terms in this bucket here labeled x
one thing I've noticed in some of the quizzes I take for my courses is that you can often pick out the right answer by seeing which terms are familiar
okay the question now that I've done three chapters
do I also do a fourth chapter
yeah, unfortunately being too good at taking tests is a skill that can degrade your actual learning
after the exam I’ll do something to relearn what I actually want to know lmao
I was an extremely talented test taker, and I also got very good at memorizing and then forgetting information for tests.
I actually encountered a test one time that was really good at having only one obviously wrong multiple choice answer and usually two or three extremely plausible answers. where the wrong answers were very close to the right one if you didn't know the material very well
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