alt Hacker NewsThis is definitely what's going to happen. But there is still a problem - people (not just children) are fundamentally lazy and put things off. People always leave assignments until the last minute. I used to smoothly transition from "I've got plenty of time, no need to start" to "there's not enough time to do it, there's no point starting".
They will 100% just use AI for the whole year and then panic and fail the exam when the time comes.
So I think not only will we see more invigilated exams, but they'll become more frequent and shorter. Which I would say is a good thing anyway. I always hated learning a whole year of stuff for a 3 hour exam.
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It’s a good point. I could see a world where exams get cheaper to administer.
I also think we can use project work as an ongoing assessment.
In what countries were the exams only once a year? When I grew up in the 90s in Sweden we would have tests and exams frequently, usually at the end of each module. This continued all the way through university. I think we had 3 separate exams for the first math course (which lasted a quarter of a year, so roughly one exam per month).
(Though they didn't give formal grades for the first several years of elementary school, which I'm not sure was a good idea.)