Online proctoring: Does anyone even pay attention?

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Passing an exam does not mean that you know the material, though. Traditionally, students cram before a test and then you retain almost none of that the next day. Conversely, some people are really bad at exams. They know the material but the stress of an exam means that they'd still fail.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to any of this, even though schools want to stick everyone into the same mold.

That's so true.  I'm pretty decent at exams, but they always make me nervous. I'd much rather write a paper.  But those can't be effectively scored (yet) by machines, which is, I'm sure, why multi-choice exams are so common.