this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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The whole point of the test is that you're supposed to be able to parse these meanings anyway. It's supposed to be relatively challenging.
At what point does the test become "do you have very specific historical knowledge that is functionally trivia for any real world use case?" though?
They don't need to have the knowledge memorized. They had full access to google and a dictionary to look up anything they found confusing, and couldn't even do that. The test was of their ability to figure out a somewhat difficult text, not of their historical knowledge.
I didn't clock that they had Google access when reading through it earlier, I thought they were limited purely to a dictionary/encyclopedia lookup. That does make it a little more damning.
That's just what high literacy - which is expected of English majors, especially by their third and fourth year - requires.