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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So what if the kids get the material, but you're putting questions they've never seen before on the tests? [/quote]

If this is a problem for you, you definitely do not belong as a student at TJ.

TJ is for the future leaders and inventors, not for memorizer regurgitators. Especially with ChatGPT now, we have no reason to pay to train mindless regurgitators. [/quote]

So, again, what is the point of teaching if you put material on a test that wasn't actually taught? At that point you're just a test administrator.[/quote]

I don't have a kid at TJ, hopefully I will in a few years, but I think I understand what is happening.

Teachers write questions that require students to identify how they are supposed to solve the problem and then the students have to solve the problem. Think word problems. Kids are not given an equation to solve or a simple chart to read. They have to read a problem and figure out how they should solve it and then solve it.

There is nothing wrong with that. It is what any kid who does math competitions is doing. I mean, it is what most of us did when we had word problems. I suck at word problems, I hate them, but they are something that tests not only your knowledge of arithmetic but how to apply the material. [/quote]

Yes and no. They have word problems on every test. That's not the issue.

The issue is when there is a problem that has never appeared in homework, on study guides, in class and it's not able to be solved using the methods they've been taught. It's a new concept suddenly appearing on the final exam.

Or, in another example, the written question doesn't give enough information to solve it. So the teacher wrote a terrible question. Whether they intended to or not. Who knows. [/quote]

Can you give a single example? [/quote]

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