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Reply 20
President_Ben
Sure. But if you get zero steps. You're done for. I can understand what something means (the word) but not do the process.

More over, getting through the 5 steps gives a very high score. There are no magic 5 steps to an arts essay.

If I need to prove a matrix is say, definite positive, I can see my answer and know for sure if it is, or isn't. I can't look at the essay and have that certainty. The sort of stuff that makes arts arts and science science is why exam scores and degrees awarded varies such that you'll see the sciences have greater variation and higher frequencies at the extremes.


Heh, I was going to post some stats exam from a third-year LSE class to prove you wrong, but I have no idea what the questions were asking, so that might not be smart. :p:
Bismarck
Heh, I was going to post some stats exam from a third-year LSE class to prove you wrong, but I have no idea what the questions were asking, so that might not be smart. :p:


ie. if you don't get it - you get zero...
Reply 22
President_Ben
ie. if you don't get it - you get zero...


How about these gems from the last IR exam:

- How successful is the post-positivist critique of positivist methodologies in IR?

- Which criteria for defining historical periodisation are most relevant for the theory of IR?

:smile:
Bismarck
How about these gems from the last IR exam:

- How successful is the post-positivist critique of positivist methodologies in IR?

- Which criteria for defining historical periodisation are most relevant for the theory of IR?

:smile:


I have already pointed out that the definition of things shouldn't be the stumbling block. I can tell you what an inverse is (dividing one by the object) but I can't necessarily invert the object.
Reply 24
President_Ben
I have already pointed out that the definition of things shouldn't be the stumbling block. I can tell you what an inverse is (dividing one by the object) but I can't necessarily invert the object.


And I can know what both positivism and post-positivism are without being able to produce the critique that the question asks for.
Bismarck
And I can know what both positivism and post-positivism are without being able to produce the critique that the question asks for.


But you say something or perform a critique of some sort, even the most basic sort, about what they are from that 'common sense'.

Mathematical operations are far from common sense. A lot of the processes just have to be learnt.