Where is the modern history? Where are the questions on governments?
Worse, this test doesn't call for much analysis; it's mainly regurgitation of memorized trivia and the most mechanical arithmetical techniques.
Worse, this test doesn't call for much analysis; it's mainly regurgitation of memorized trivia and the most mechanical arithmetical techniques.
To be fair though, at least now you can rote learn the right things to pass the tests in any country, not just a few wealthy western schools that teach latin and greek....
I also have a very close friend who is now an elementary school teacher (4th grade), and says this as well (they don't just teach with rote memorization). Recently, she was telling me about the subjects she was teaching and the different learning tools they were employing in the class room, and we were having a discussion about how great it was that they are focusing on problem solving and knowledge discovery and not just on rote memorization.