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Indeed. This is why I aced at Imperial but sucked at Cambridge. If your goal is to learn proficiency in a skill or a set of knowledge that is presented to you,
by binaryfinery 16y ago
Indeed. This is why I aced at Imperial but sucked at Cambridge. If your goal is to learn proficiency in a skill or a set of knowledge that is presented to you, then test, test, test. But my test-acing skills didn't help when the goal was to go out and find all the information I needed and then draw conclusions.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoA British friend with a PhD from Manchester claims that is why the UK PhD system produces more Nobels per capita than any other - it essentially throws students into the water with little structure and forces them to sink or swim, which better prepares them for real-world research.
- dhimes 16y ago... and helps keep the denominator of the per capita small.