JT_the_Ninja
Black Belt
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- #21
I still defend making students wait before they know, not only for the purely logistical reasons of needing to total up scores for four or fivescore people, usually of different ranks (add sending notice to all their respective schools for C.S. Kim black belt tests), but also because of something I may or may have not said earlier: you don't want the students to start taking it easy. If I'm told right there and then that I passed, my next class is going to be me taking it easy because I know that's one hurdle gone, and my rank is secure, even if I haven't been promoted yet. If I'm told I failed, then I begin to lose hope in myself and also start taking it easy. But if I don't know, I'll work just as hard as always, or maybe even extra hard, in the hopes that all I did at the test was good enough. There's nothing like uncertainty to make you work harder preventively.