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Originally posted by baltassoc
Okay, fair enough. How about this (SAT) rule: there are never more than three same answers in a row (i.e., if you have four "C"s in a row, at least one of them is wrong).
The above rule is a great example of how one can use the unintended consequence of a rule set up for other purposes to ones advantage, and closely resembles the method used by cryptographers to crack codes (like the Enigma code in WWII), but I'm not sure that's on the curriculum at most schools. Maybe it should be.
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A teacher who is teaching that rule is a lousy teacher. That's a stupid "test-taking" technique -- not education.
It's also likely to be wrong.
eta: I make the final point because, as I remember it, one simple technique to counter cheating was to scramble the questions on the test -- you all have the same 100 questions or whatever, but they are all in different orders. If that's true, then you easily can end up with any number of "Cs" in a row. And I'm sure I've seen tests where that is the case.
