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as a student who didn't understand why I was getting it right more often when I wasn't showing my work, the assignment of credit based on this frustrated my education immensely.

figured out, a decade later, doing remedial math to get into calculus, that i was just a touch dyslexic. it had made me vulnerable to some seemingly algorithmic multiple-choice test trickery in their remedial math program, and explained where the requirements to show work had helped me to develop the wrong answer, so many times in high school.

understanding this and being able to give myself a pass where i could expect to transpose some variables .. i was actually sort-of talented and more importantly, i actually enjoyed it ..