Has nothing to do with anyone

If you will forget most of the things you learn in school and most of the knowledge you will retain through life comes from on-the-job training, then what is the point of trying to remember what you learn from class in order to do well on exams in a pass/fail system? If you think that's such a stupid question, then give me a convincing argument of why I should study for an exam when classes are pass/fail. True, remembering will help me become a better doctor, but there's no way to retain any detail of what you learn in medical school (it's simply not possible for a human brain to retain all these details when new information is poured in every day to replace them). As a result, the only thing you can take from medical school is the fact that you have learned everything once and learning it the second time for your future job will be faster. Humor me, and believe for the sake of the argument that the above observation is true, then is there a point to studying for medical school exams when they are pass/fail?

Since I'm inclining towards no, the above paragraph is simply a result of procrasination and disbelief in studying for exams. Have you ever crammed your head with so much information that you want to dump it somewhere and move on with life? Well, you really can't because you need to know these things for your job but you will, since there is not enough space in our brains. So WHAT is the point?

The answer is there is NONE!

You're in a room with Hitler, Mussolini and a lawyer. You have a gun with two bullets. Who do you shoot?

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The lawyer...TWICE!