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This makes me wish my AWS exam was rewritten to accomodate for open notes (like, 1 sheet of paper filled to the brim front to back would totally suffice for me) so I'd have something to defer to while I test. It irks me to no end that you teach so much shit in the class, yet you- https://twitter.com/caoimhets/status/1390305147704659972
-have to fucking memorize every last drop of info and somehow retain it for longer than a fly's life expectancy just for an inkling of a chance to pass. You'd have to retool the test for open notes, yes, but you'd probably get more people who'd actually go outta their way to put-
-together their own notes page that they can defer to for the test. That right there shows preparedness and a drive to ace the exam. Memorization isn't a great scale of how good someone is at a given subject. What good is regurgitating facts when you'll forget them moments after-
-the test is finished? That is the biggest issue with the practitioner exam. It's made purely to regurgitate facts and terms, not actually judge you on your skill in that subject. Open notes and questions tailored around those, rewarding preparedness over cramming and that kinda-
-shit, would be the way to go about it if you ask me. It just bugs me that the course has so much shit in it but you can't remake your own test to accomodate fucking notes made by students themselves. Shit is total motherfucking hogwash if you ask me.
Listen, I'm not asking for an easy test. Make that shit harder to validate the students having a notes page to look at! And hell, limit it to one piece of notebook paper just so nobody puts a behemoth cheat sheet together. One scrap of paper is all you'll need if you're creative-
-enough and know how to space them out in such a way that they don't run together. And have the exams take advantage of these notes to throw more challenging questions which require them in order to apply concepts to various scenarios that test your comprehension of the material.
Sorry this thread is so long, I had quite a lot to say on the matter. This took way too fucking long to type lmfao.
