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  Because we've reached the point where we all know that schools are a publicly funded babysitting service and an endless game of Trivial Pursuit is really the only way we can keep up ruse, but we don't really have a way out of it.
  Actually grading for actual knowledge is somewhere on some hyper-dimensional axis between "impossible" and "would make everyone angry."
  Like I hate tests.  You hate tests.  Students hate tests.  I bet teachers hate test.  Why do we have them?  Because what else we going to do?
context: Exams aren't meant to teach you, they're meant to test you. Paying attention to lectures, taking notes, and doing the homework is how you learn. If you're waiting until the last minute to study, you're gonna have a bad time. >
  
  It's only ineffective if the person who's supposed to be learning the new material isn't learning it as it's taught to them. >
  
  Yeah I’d be surprised if any serious pedagogy researchers see exams as a good thing