What's the crazy to me is you took that as the gold standard for education evaluation.

For comparison we had lengthy sessions in a jailed terminal, week after week, writing C programs covering specific algorithms, compiling and debugging them within these sessions and assistants would follow our progress and check we're getting it. Those not finishing in time get additional sessions.

Last exam was extremely simple and had very little weight in the overall evaluation.

That might not scale as much, but that's definitely what I'd long for, not the Chuck Norris style cram school exam you are drawing us.