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by Spivak 1347 days ago
Which is stupid because who cares if you get it in one or ten tries? Allowing retaken classes to replace old grades should be the standard.
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Doctors don't get do-overs.

Coming up in a culture of "get this right the first time" makes all kinds of sense for a medical training track.

No it doesn't, what? How do you think learning works? I couldn't remember what 7 times 6 was on my 4th grade test and now it's impossible for me to know it. I get that it's hard to see because it's so normalized but it's ridiculous that our education system is based on fixed time intervals. God help someone who needs to take a little more time on the material before mastering it, guess you just fail. And when we create a system that punishes anything less than perfect forever we end up selecting good test takers rather than good doctors.