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Joseph Spelts
4,189 PointsAnswers to incorrect questions
I may be missing something but is there a reason you dont see the correct answer in a quiz if you get it wrong? I think it would be helpful to know but again I may just be missing something.
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,863 PointsI agree.
You can always send your comments / suggestions to the Support Team and they will forward it to the Devs.
Garrett Sanderson
12,735 PointsThey do that to deter the activity of someone taking a quiz and just guessing through the whole thing and then when they get them wrong they just retake it and get them all right since the answers are all given. This would be completely 100% against the whole point of what Treehouse is trying to do.
I respect them for not doing this. They could easily implement this and still have people paying monthly for this service and just allow the person to decide how they want to go about using this service.
In my own opinion, adding this functionality would be a detriment to the community of learners as a whole.
Jay Padzensky
4,731 PointsGarrett has pretty accurately explained our rationale. Treehouse really wants to make sure topics, skills, and ideas are learned. By simulating as closely as possible what it's like to not know an answer as a developer, we hope to also help deliver the ability to find that answer. Be it via other developers, Google, Stack Overflow, etc., developers can't know everything there is to know about a language (or, multiple languages!), so it's a good skill to know how and where to look when they come across a new problem.
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,863 PointsHey Jay Padzensky ,
I do feel that it should be a considered option, especially with the fill-in-the-blank questions (the multiple choice, you can just redo). There are many of the fill-in-the-blank ones that are very precise. In these cases, researching might not actually solve the question. The best example I can think of, is the quiz with the question of what CSS stands for. So many students enter "Cascading Style Sheet" with no pluralization. They will try and try and always encounter the question being wrong. In this case, even research probably wouldn't tell them that either one or many stylesheets, there still has to be an 's' on Sheets.
A suggestion would be that there could be a quiz summary after the quiz when / if you passed it. The summary would show the questions and the answers for the ones you got wrong. Because one is not likely to go back and research the one / ones they got wrong if the quiz was passed, and often you can't remember which one it was that was wrong.
That's just my reasoning. :)