past questions rant

It’s strange that we have to pay for past questions. All students should have equal access to them, even if it’s just the digital version,it’s better than not having them at all.

Another issue with these past questions is that no one seems to talk about it. I can’t imagine how many first-year students went through the year without even knowing that past questions were being sold. I only found out because I happened to see someone with them at the library.

Another problem is that the answers to many questions are either wrong or just a single, unhelpful line. This is funny because each term the solutions to the final and midterm are usually posted on umlearn and those solutions don't have any issues, so I wonder why they didn't just use those ones.

The last and most important issue:

The biggest issue is with courses that don’t provide past questions but still give students their tests back on Crowdmark. Do you really think those students won’t share the Crowdmark link with others? That’s even worse than selling the questions because now access depends on personal connections with past students rather than just money.