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I had a school assignment to read a book and answer questions. Is it ok to skip straight to the questions?
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Unless instructed otherwise, I would definitely read the questions before reading the piece, so I could keep an eye out for the parts of the piece that the instructor was particularly interested in teaching. If instructed to wait to read the questions until I was finished, I would trust that the instructor had a reason for wanting me to read first and then consider the questions later.

The reading is part of the assignment. Do not try to get out of it. It doesn’t seem too smart to attempt to give your final answers before you read instead of after. It would be kind of interesting, however, to pencil in some rough guesses before you begin.
 
Hi,

I had a school assignment to read a book and answer questions. Is it ok to skip straight to the questions?
Thanks
Uh, how can you even answer the questions, if you don’t read the book? :confused: Are you just going to make blind guesses?

Or are you planning on using CliffNotes, SparksNotes, or certain “Answers” websites, to get the answers without actually reading the book?

Now, if you’re asking if it’s okay to read the questions first, then read the actual book keeping the questions in mind, then while I can think of practical reasons not to do it that way, I don’t see a reason why that’s a sin. Did the teacher even specify that the students had to read the book first, then look at the questions?
 
No it’s not a sin to not read the book (or watch the movie instead,) but both are very dumb ideas. I don’t know how you’d even begin to answer the questions without reading the book. 🤷 It’s gonna show in your answers or if teacher decides to surprise you with a quiz or test later. You won’t be able to look up answers in Cliff Notes or the Internet then! :o

Also the movie rarely is as detailed as the book. Often times they Hollywoodize the movies so much to put in added love scenes, etc that it’s quite different all together.

I know you are a high school (or maybe a college) student. Your old enough to realize this isn’t a smart thing to do. It will catch up with you sooner or later this year. 🤷 But if you are simply are looking for an answer to is it sinful to not do everything the teacher asks? Then no it isn’t. But I again stress it’s a very dumb (and quite immature) thing to do. 😉

ETA: It might be helpful to read the questions first, and as you are reading be mindful of possible answers. Again, read the whole book, in case there is a pop quiz that asks for other answers to other questions not listed. And good teachers are famous for doing this, trust me I’ve learned the hard way! :o
 
Hi,

I had a school assignment to read a book and answer questions. Is it ok to skip straight to the questions?
Thanks
You might actually enjoy reading the book and thinking about what you read. Just answering the questions will not give you as rich an experience. It’s the easy short-cut method that often doesn’t work effectively and is ultimately less rewarding mentally and emotionally.
 
I guess watching the movie is wrong too.
We just had an honor code presentation at our kid’s junior/senior high school, and they specifically mentioned watching a movie or using Cliff notes as a violation of the honor code.
 
What are your reasons for not reading the assigned reading? What are your parents’ thoughts regarding the material assigned? Is there anything objectionable in the reading, such as a conflict with Catholic teachings? What might be going on in this class or with you to justify not reading the assigned material?
 
We just had an honor code presentation at our kid’s junior/senior high school, and they specifically mentioned watching a movie or using Cliff notes as a violation of the honor code.
Interesting. :hmmm: I wonder why? The kid is likely to fail before long by not doing the assigned work. As long as there’s no lying, cheating or plagiarism I wouldn’t see this as an honor issue. 🤷 I may be in the minority, but school shouldn’t be forced. Then it becomes a mandatory juvenile prison. :p. They don’t do the work, then they fail and will eventually screw up their lives. Simple consequences for simple problems.

ETA: I should make it clear that I am not condoning lying here. If the teacher asks “did you read the book?” And the kid says “yes,” that is dishonest and not acceptable. But simply not doing what is asked by a teacher, that will work itself out in time.
 
Interesting. :hmmm: I wonder why? The kid is likely to fail before long by not doing the assigned work. As long as there’s no cheating or plagiarism I wouldn’t see this as an honor issue. 🤷 I may be in the minority, but school shouldn’t be forced. Then it becomes a mandatory juvenile prison. :p. They don’t do the work, then they fail and will eventually screw up their lives. Simple consequences for simple problems.
I was perplexed by that school’s banning of movies and study guides too, which sounds like book banning to me. It’s outside of the school’s authority to tell parents what their children can or cannot read or watch outside of school.

10-20% of people have dyslexia. Others have other learning disabilities that may or maynot be diagnosed. Some high schools even graduate students who never learned to read! Watching a movie or skimming study guides or listening books read aloud might be the only way some people to comprehend larger amounts of reading material.
 
10-20% of people have dyslexia. Others have other learning disabilities that may or may not be diagnosed.
b t w, my usual reading style is to start at the back or middle of a book, fasten on the middle of a page, let my eyes spiral outwards, when I am fed up with that page I find another page, etc. Not recommended to be copied if you can find a better way and I only discovered I was doing it in late middle age. I am admitting it in case someone else thinks they are the only one! Often I work my way systematically through afterwards to fill in any gaps!
 
As a separate point I get the impression potentially corrupting books are a more and more depressing problem in study work these days :bighanky:
 
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