I got a free education co-learning with chinese kids at CMU. 95% of all the course material for all their classes were already available to them in their respective language.
Most of it seemed superior to the actual course material as it most often included parables, idioms, diagrams, and community sourced notes. They all had an earnest plan to learn as much of the material (if not more) than their American peers but they were simply playing another game.
Would you rather hire someone with poor grades who struggled to find answers on their own, or someone who had excellent grades utilizing superior resources and teamwork?
The reality is that the former student will probably never get a place at the table because they’ll get filtered out of the ‘elite’ pipeline sooner than later, and even if they do make it through, they probably also lack the same resources for your companies’s interview process.
Some people want to do it on their own and refuse to cheat. What is the best strategy for someone in that group? Is school and big tech just not for them?
Sorry I didn't see anything about Chinese taking of the tests on there and thought it was the other one. Honestly the AP exam is a completely alien concept to me (in Canada)
NY state has Regents exams. One year (1980s?) they got stolen from a school safe ahead of the exams. The exams were cancelled statewide.
The cops caught the perps (kids) and gave them immunity to name the folks that set them up to do the job. Surprise: the kids did it all on their own. Immunity was kept: they got off.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 32.4 ms ] threadMost of it seemed superior to the actual course material as it most often included parables, idioms, diagrams, and community sourced notes. They all had an earnest plan to learn as much of the material (if not more) than their American peers but they were simply playing another game.
The reality is that the former student will probably never get a place at the table because they’ll get filtered out of the ‘elite’ pipeline sooner than later, and even if they do make it through, they probably also lack the same resources for your companies’s interview process.
Some people want to do it on their own and refuse to cheat. What is the best strategy for someone in that group? Is school and big tech just not for them?
The cops caught the perps (kids) and gave them immunity to name the folks that set them up to do the job. Surprise: the kids did it all on their own. Immunity was kept: they got off.