Mechanical aptitude test

Does a failure to learn indicate a lack of teaching? (note of, not in)

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Geo typed:

Or "Give him 2.54cm and he'll take 0.3' leagues".

 

I'm the one who got a U - I have no idea. I'll ask him next time he
comes home.

 

It indicates unsuitable methods of teaching, IMHO.

 

90% but some ambiguous questions in there, what motion proncipal do
brakes use. Is friction a motion principle I don't think so bu
deceleration is the outcome not something brakes use.

Also the hydraulic question was badly phrased describing pressure as a
force.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, ogden typed:

Having said all that, if imperial measurements disappeared overnight I
wouldn't worry too much. I can cope OK with metric in any circumstances if
I have to - I just find imperial sometimes fits me better. Laziness.

My daughters (19 and 23) still use feet and inches etc, even though as far
as I now their schools have never taught it.

 

But you see, a league is not metric either... it should be more like "The
5.556 Kilometres of extraordinary gentlemen"


Geo

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Mo typed:

Friction was the principle; deceleration is the effect, IWHT.

 

See above where I put 'of' not 'in'. Go muddy the waters over there
somewhere...

PS I agree, but you knew that. Unsuitable to what though?

 

5 wrong - twit
7 wrong - couldn't understand what was being asked
31 wrong but then their answer is wrong. (300x1 = Bx5 which would
make B = 60)
38 wrong but I'm not sure they are right either
48 wrong

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Geo typed:

Yes, yes.

 

Sounds like centripetal versus centrifugal to me

 

eh?

 

I didn't complete it.

Not brain boxes at all, merely the victims of learning.

 

I have a broad imagination, and the back field at home was just under 2
acres.

 

I ought to register an interest in this, having just come in from
another secondary school open evening, with a view to listing 5 LA
educational establishments in order of preference for the lad to start
at next September.

The school which SWMBO thinks should be top of the list is very much in
to self directed learning, so teachers it seems are almost redundant as
far as they are concerned (particularly in ICT perhaps unsurprisingly).

One of these city technology colleges that one is, awash with computers
but hardly any displays of work up. No teachers at all were in evidence
on the open day (when prospective pupils have to do a test to ensure the
school takes representative percentages of ability) and the head teacher
addressed the parents by video akin to '1984'. An environment designed
to be more like a business than a school is their boast.

The school we looked round tonight was a local community school. Lots of
displays of work in all subjects, not just Art, and seething with pupils
*and* teachers showing what goes on.

A bit of a vexed question in our household at the moment and a somewhat
fraught topic of discussion. I want him , above all, to enjoy going to
school, whereas SWMBO is totally results orientated.

So in answer to your question - not always, and I would cite myself as a
case in point. I was a lazy barstard and no amount of 'teaching' would
make me learn something *properly* if I wasn't sufficiently motivated,
at least in the school environment as it was in my day. I suspect a
military training regime might be different (certainly in motivation
methods).




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**** that. I did similar tests over 30 years ago when I was applying
for mechanical apprenticeships so I'm not going to waste my time on
them now.

 

Sport distances were still measured in imperial right up until I left
school in 1975. We still ran distances in yards and parts of a mile
and we still played rugby on an imperial pitch as in we had a 25 yard
line.

This might have been because it was an archaic grammar school but I
could be wrong about that.

 

This is to be expected, The Ministry has defined new methods (in
language teaching at least) called the 'approche actionnelle' ('actional
approach') applicable from 2004 in lycées, from 2006 in Sixième and
Cinquième, and from 2007 in Quatrième (Bulletin Officiel N° 41 of 6
November 2003).

Basically, teachers take a backseat and the child (which we now call
'apprenants', rather than 'élèves, FFS) are at the centre of their
'teaching experience', responsible for their own learning.

In other words: yes, another piece of piss 'gimmick' which no doubt will
be superseded by the next one in a few years, just like the 'approche
cognitive', the 'approche notionelle', and so on. A process that has
been going on since the end of the nineteenth century.

D.