I agree with you in spirit, but the last meta pre-LLM was that exams were bad at measuring student skill and that students felt more fairly treated when their grade was the result of multiple assignments and projects. I think it's a shame we have move away from that

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volemo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> exams were bad at measuring student skill

They are. I have a friend who was significantly more smart and thorough in our studies but often get bad scores on exams not being able to concentrate under the pressure.

	▲	petterroea 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exams also rarely measured skill in the course. Often just a subset. We would often spend the last month of each semester cramming exams instead of studying the curse material because it wasn't that useful. I rarely felt I got a lot out of courses, but I often felt I would if I got to study it properly