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say "demonstrate" that word or idea or principie, the student has have something to do with it. And shatters.
One student passed "Itsa" in theory with flying colors every ti even on cross-check type questions, yet had never been known to list When the theory instructor said, "Demonstrate what a student woi have to do to pass Itsa," the whole subject blew up. "There's too m ways to do lisa auditing!" the student said. Yet on the bulietin merely said "Listen." That given as a giib answer was ai! right.
"demonstration" brought to light that this student hadn't a clue abi listening to a preclear. If he had to demonstrate it, the non-particil tion of the student in the material he was studying carne to light.
Don't get the idea that demonstration is a practical section acti Practical gives the drilis. These demonstrations in theory aren't dri
Demonstration
Giving a builetin or tape check by seeing if it can be quoted paraphrased proves exactiy nothing. This will not guarantee that student knows the data or can use or apply it nor even guarantees t the student is there. Neither the "bright" student nor the "di student (both suffering from the sarne malady) wili benefit from si an examination.
So examining by seeing if somebody "knows" the text and quote or paraphrase it is completely false and must not be done.
Correct examination is done only by making the person be tested anSwer: (a) the meanings of the words (redefining the wo used in his own words and demonstrating their use in his own made sentences), and (b) demonstrating how the data is used.