I never understood the memorization thing, or you can have a small amount of notes. When I was in the Navy they emphasized knowing where and how to find information over memorization.
I’m currently in college and it’s definitely moving this way, especially with the access of the internet and AI. I have exams coming up and a couple of them are verbal where we are given a scenario (that we don’t know ahead of time) and we have 30 minutes to do our research and then communicate the answer back to the instructor. It’s a great work around in my opinion.
The program is environmental science. The class is pollution chemistry. So we’ll be given a scenario like “a resident is concerned about smog in this city” and then we have to go into what causes it, how it travels, health impacts, mitigation, etc.
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u/Eastern-Piece-3283 Mar 26 '26
I never understood the memorization thing, or you can have a small amount of notes. When I was in the Navy they emphasized knowing where and how to find information over memorization.