Your Objective: Learning or Marks? (1 Viewer)

[AcStyle*]

Hmm, i'd hav to say a little from column A & a little from column B, but in the end its the degree we're all after isn't it?

 

[pb]

Like in the movie Memento...

oooohh thats such a good movie!

anyway
my objective is the marks... not that that's going well
but im gonna change that
im gonna make myself like the work godammit!

 

[AsyLum]

So, cya in the arcade/cafeteria then

 

[my sharona]

Wow. That is really sad.
21 for degree, 8 for learning.

Having said that, i picked degree.
If i could just pay my $20K and finish tomorrow, i would. Stuff the learning.

 

[Orange Juice]

Wow. That is really sad.
21 for degree, 8 for learning.

Having said that, i picked degree.
If i could just pay my $20K and finish tomorrow, i would. Stuff the learning.

thats so true, id pay 20k to get my degree as well...
way i figure it is, we're all just paying to get our degree... i dont even remmeber any of the stuff i learnt last year...
and you cant learn reality related things from books

 

[iambored]

From there, reading the posts on here, and talking to people and remembering the HSC, education is largely about receiving marks for work done: once the marks are received, how much do we --or the educational system-- really care about whether we learn the content or not? Marks are an indicator of a 'learned' person, who, say, comes out of uni with a degree an a GPA of X, but do they still know and remember and apply and understand that knowledge? ...if not, they got fantastic marks in the short term, but the long term costs are that they're not really as knoledgable (and presumably employable) as their records/transcript suggests... which leads to career problems.

But then, you can have what the psych literature called 'learnign orientation': you want to learn, and apply, and integrate all your future knowledge into the knowledge you've now got, which is an integration of yesterday's learning, etc etc... all of which is done not with regard to marks, but to your personal learning... (but the marks follow, becuase you're learning in appropriate areas). However, obviously this has short term costs (a lot more work than, say, trying to second-guess that final exam essay question, or working out strategies to skimp on studying...), but has long term gains (much more knowledge, and all the things that flow from that).

I agree and always have with the first paragraph

learning orientation is too much work, i want the marks and then to go and relax my brain from all the cramming and hard work. i am there to get a degree primarily, not to learn new things. but the good thing about this is that i love learning new and interesting things, especially if they can be applied to life so i enjoy getting the degree.

a lot of the time i feel that trying to integrate past knowledge with present doesn't always work and it all comes together eventually when i have a good enough knowledge of everything. at first everything is foreign but when i get a better knowledge of something everything else follows.

i also can't remember anything after a while even though i would love to remember everything i have learnt.

 

[withoutaface]

Learning .