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Old Mon Sep 15, 2003, 12:26pm
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
There has been a long-standing difference of opinion on this board about this sort of question for several years. There are two basic opinions. Tony and Mark, among others, feel that it's not particularly helpful to simply supply the answers to the tests. If you don't know the answer, then you ought to dig a little ...

Others, including at least one poster in this thread, think that tests are just about useless so it does no harm to supply the answers....
Chuck, there is a third position which I would take, and NevadaRef has already taken, which is to let the questioner look up the answers for himself, but give him a boost in the correct direction by giving references. I think this answers both concerns and is the most helpful in every direction: He'll be able to do better on the test, because he will have LEARNED something, which will also be useful later.