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The Atlantic: Neurodivergent students are faking it and have it too easy (archive.ph)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [M] to c/slop@hexbear.net
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NTs throwing a hissy fit over something that has exactly zero impact on their lives because the NDs aren’t suffering enough? Must be another day ending in Y.

NTs will eat shit if it means NDs have to smell it.

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[–] 25 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

I was never able to complete most exams at university in time because I was too elaborate with my answers. Time limits are obviously necessary because you need to collect it at some point and can't keep supervisors there forever, but I don't see the point in making them so restrictive that some people can't answer all questions in time.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    That's really only a problem for tests that are less about right/wrong answers and instead have some sort of art to them, like English, Literature, etc. For sciences, maths, and all the things where there's an objectively right answer you're either doing it right or you're not. None of those need time limits. People either know the answers and the method to get to them, or they don't.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago*

    STEM exams can have partial grades based on the completeness of your answer. They were rarely simple right/wrong multiple choice tests. And it was those where I ran out of time, and I hated the fact that I didn't even get to answer some questions because of this fact.

    Edit: And some exams deliberately had more tasks in them than what could reasonably be answered in time, so you had to optimize by seeking out the high scoring questions first.

    The more I think about it, the more I realize just how much of my higher education was only about gaming the system and not actually learning anything.

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