exams, tests, quizzes, brainteasers

[mollykins]

This is a bit of ageneralisation so don't tell me off if you're different to the following.

Why is it that (in general) people don't want/ like to do exams and tests but don't mind quizzes and brainteasers? Etc Etc.

They're basically the same thing but with a different name although with exams and tests you're usually working on your own, but you might be on your own doing a quiz or brainteaser to pass the time ie on a long journey.

One of probably many perculiarities in life . . . .

[NazNomad]

a) lithium
b) cheese
c) turkey
d) cupboard

Now I subliminally want a sandwich ...

[mrs_overall]

I go to a quiz every Friday night and the amount of cheating leaves me gobsmacked. One person has a copy of the Guiness book of hit singles in her bag every week and always gets full marks in the music round

[squarebear]

We have people who openly google on their mobile phones in our local quiz. I stopped going when the same 19 year old lad won it 4 weeks in a row.

[NazNomad]

He wasn't texting puzzleking123, was he?

[factor-fiction]

Isn't it an urban myth about GCSE exams being based on multiple choice questions nowadays? I teach GCSE maths, and for the exam board we use there are no multiple choice questions.
It seems to me multiple choice questions were actually more common 30-40 years ago. Many of my 'O' level exams included a section based on multiple choice, so it's not a modern day feature of exams

[mollykins]

I've known people to cheat at the fortnightly school pub quiz by googling on their iphone.

There's a running total now, and we're 2/9 by 2 points!

[seadogg]

Asked my grand daughter and she replied, "You dont have to ************** revise for quizzes

[DTCwordfan]

We didn't have Multiple Choice questions, only Multiple Guess ones

[mollykins]

Factor, like i say in some exams there are multiple choice. The chem paper i ddi in january was 1/2 multiple choice, 1/4 maths, 1/4 other random chemsitry knowledge.
Biology had a few tick boxes a couple of claculations and a few 1 word/ sentences questions and 2 half page questions. Maths had 1 section on quick 1 or 2 mark answers then a section on longer question where if you can't do the first part, you can't answer the rest of it.

at gcse history, english and RE were a combination of answers between 1 sentence and 2 pages long.

Art was a huge final piece with a 2 page evaluation.

Geography had answers between 1 and 10 sentences long.

sciences had a few multiple choice questions aswell as 1 word/number answers and a few that were a sentence or two long plus some diagrams to draw.

And maths had no multiple choice question but some question were quicker to work out than other.

[weecalf]

Never heard of anyone not getting a job cause they could not get a 9 lettered word ?r?t?y?r?