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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depending on the question, many answers in calculus are:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 0
  • invalid

This is especially true if they don't let you have a calculator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

This is especially true if they don’t let you have a calculator.

Maybe I'm old and come from a time before calculators could do integrals and derivatives, but I never needed a calculator for calculus as it would not have helped in any way.

And I don't think there being four possible answers that come up frequently is a reason to make a calculus test multiple choice. What about partial credit? If you show all of your work, but make a small error at the end and get the wrong answer, you're just fucked I guess? That's dumb. Not a great way to teach.