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Originally Posted by 1stSoon2BePhD
Weeeeeell, I have personally written BS answers in biology classes when I was unsure of exactly what the question was asking and I earned generous partial credit. However, I teach General Chemistry now and I agree that USUALLY they either know a concept and get straight to the point or they don't know it and they make things up. However, you can show that you know the definition of a concept without knowing how to apply that knowledge and get partial credit.
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That's it..you get partial credit. Like I said in my post, if you understand the concept, you can solve the problem. Knowing the definition and understanding the concept are two different things entirely which is why science is often hard for people. That is what separates good doctors from the bad ones in a lot of ways. As for BSing on your biology question, who knows...maybe you understood what they were getting at more than you thought. What does get less concrete in science is medicine- we do lots of things "just because we do."