As an educator in multilingual education and AI-assisted pedagogies, I am challenging the long-standing memorization paradigm that has dominated classrooms. Mock exams belong to a different traditional era of practice—rooted in the standardization and industrial paradigm that treated education like assembly-line production. Here's why I reject them and embrace dynamic alternatives.
Why Mock Exams Fail
Mock exams promote rote cramming, turning students into prisoners of repetition. They kill cognitive dynamism, ignoring how multilingual skills—like contextual fluency and cultural adaptation—demand real-world application, not one-shot tests from an outdated industrial model.
My Approach: Progressive, In-Class or off-class/remote Mastery
I favor continuous activities and mini-projects that build competencies situationally. Students apply multilingual skills through collaborative tasks, simulations, and AI-enhanced workflows, fostering deep, layered understanding.
Innovation: NotebookLM Audio Guides
Today, I used NotebookLM to create an audio overview of the final exam structure—an elaborate narrative linking questions to the full lecture network. Students engage multisensorially: listening, associating content (e.g., module on multilingual practices and ethics), and reflecting. This immersive prep boosts retention without mocks.
In the multilingual education's AI era, such tools augment cognition, reducing anxiety and sparking motivation... Yet, existing structure and policies, especially those plagued with micro-management philosophies and various types of control-mania practices, do not let these illuminating methods be nurtured and implemented.
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