Here’s What’s Wrong With Online Tests
The huge problem with the closed-note test
4 min readMar 24, 2020
I just took a difficult midterm for my Intel Assembly Language class. It covered four chapters of the textbook and had a string of challenging coding questions which were less about problem-solving and more about memorization and hexadecimal arithmetic skill. I scored an 88%. Not my best but there’s nothing wrong with that score.
