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by icc97 3023 days ago
Sal Khan has a good talk [0] about applying the methods of learning martial arts to education. That is it doesn't matter how many times you do a retake it matters that you get it correct. As opposed to setting the pass rate at 50% which means you never get a full foundation to build on learning the next level.

[0]: https://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/conversatio...