However my all time worst test award goes to unit standards as practiced by NZ polytechnics. The question is only judged correct if it has certain key words or phrases. The only way you can get full marks is to quote the text verbatim (in an assignment literally copy). I mean how does this equal learning?
I had a AP English teacher who was into existentialist authors. She used to write vocabulary words on the blackboard with extensive definitions of which the student was required to regurgitate verbatim for the test.
She was so anal, she marked off for missing conjunctions.
