The excruciating examination process in which thousands of pressured students who are not fully ready to take an exam, must prove what they have ‘learned’ to aggressive and rapacious examiners, only a minority being selected in the vast marine of shinning students who have just been unchained of the shackles of school work and deadlines? And the rest...? They are left to dry out in the harsh world, to be taunted for doing miserable on that one day, not being given another try. Exams deteriorate us and oppress our very lives making our everyday routine revising and reiterating for an exam that can determine our whole life. The 2 sided pages trap us into our failure, whilst the time ticks at its loudest, making us write nothing but a single letter on a line which finally concludes our end result. Of course if you are to do well, you are fine, but with the ever-changing ruthless mark scheme it’s very difficult to do just well. The pressure put on the fragile mind only gives the tormenter one choice under the stress leading to the examination. To give up! Even the polite and civilised students fall and loose complete confidence in them self’s, feeling like they ruined there only last chance to shine. NO! It’s exhausting having to prepare for an examination when the end result is marked so harshly, it puts the only courage you have down. Masses of tress being removed, the same tress giving us the air we breathe. Papers and papers and pages and pages... all for a single letter on a line, is it truly worth it? Examinations should be banned from the education procedures to avoid any harm it does to the livelihood of a child’s mind.…
As well as the person working in the best firm, students that study in university have to suffer different kinds of stress from various elements. A formal examination can be one of the reasons for their study-related stress. However, some people believe that it is unnecessary for students to stand more stress from formal examinations. This essay will argue that formal examinations indeed place unnecessary stress on students at university. It will focus on unnecessary nervousness due to the formal requirements and the overburden because of the significant weighting of exams.…
This will be useful for my paper to explain and go into detail about the fears of exams from students.…
In the essay “More Testing, More Learning”, the writer Patrick O'Malley argued the major, infrequent, high-stakes exams work against the best interests of students both psychologically and cognitively. Therefore, he stated that professor should give frequent exams to the students in order to help them learn more. The writer began the essay with an example which is happening normally among the college students—most people did the last minute anxiety about midterm. Many of the students will study all night before the test day.…
Schneider, Stephanie, and Matt Christison. "Argument: Are Exams Bad For children?" New Internationalist All Posts RSS. N.p., July 2013. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.…
The article “The Case Against GRADES” in the publication, Educational Leadership 69.3 (2011): 28-33, argues that due to the excessive competition of traditional grading systems, students no longer focus on the course material and its importance, instead attention is based around how well they performed in comparison to their peers (Kohn 30). The author of “The Case against GRADES”, Alfie Kohn, is the publisher of fourteen books based on education, parenting, competition and motivation. Kohn debates that the competitiveness of letter grading systems is not healthy because it causes students to focus on doing better than others in comparison to actually focusing solely on comprehending the course material. In this case, achievement and success are what triggers students’ will to learn. Therefore, the lack of this incentive with the pass/fail grading system will negatively alter their will to learn. Although, it is portrayed as if the competition is disrupting all students learning, it is actually causing many to study and work harder to understand the necessary information so that they can achieve and succeed at a higher level than their peers. Even though competition is their motive, they still have to learn and excel academically in order to be competitive. Within the pass/fail grading system there is an absence of competition, which may…
In my opinion, Education is a holistic process of learning and development in an individual’s lifetime. While competitiveness, is the result of the basic survival instinct already inherent in an individual, or for that matter all living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For this reason, I believe education as a system shouldn’t undermine the importance of “competition” as a valuable tool employed to enhance the learning process, undermining which might consequently hinder the natural progress and development of a student.…
Everybody loves going on vacation, especially going to the beach. Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys said, “On the beach, you can live in bliss.” There are many beaches all over the world that people enjoy going to for different reasons; however, Nhatrang Beach in Vietnam is a vibrant beach where we can enjoy our vacations at any time of day. As the sun rises, shines, and sets over Nhatrang Beach, it transforms the atmosphere of this magical place.…
Students are required to be more skilled in taking objective exams than subjective exams which made the objective one become harder to pass. The reason is that students only have to be concerned about the grammar and content on the subjective exams. Nevertheless, students have to pay extra attention to the strategies required by different type of the objection exams, such as multiple-choice questions and matching…
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* Exams often do little more than measure a person’s ability to take exams. Should exams be outlawed in favor of another form of assessment?…
Over the years it is the opinion of every educationist, teacher and general public that board or annual school examinations based on tests in two or three hours duration provide limited information on various elements of curriculum and range of learning in any subjects.In view of the above short comings in the existing system of evaluation it is desirable that evaluation of students should be not only continuous but comprehensive also.…
Competition is a step towards a healthy and natural learning. We make new friends, discussing different works being ranked. Competition infuses strong emotions and strong emotions can push even the lazy students towards working more in class. Competition is thus a powerful tool for learning…
To begin with, Competition motivates children to push themselves forward in study in specific and their life in general. In fact, the sense of competition that strongly helps bring out children’s effort to improve their comprehensive knowledge, to get high scores and to win great prizes. They compete with each other to get the results as highest as possible. This means, with a sense of competition, the children themselves will try to perform better than others, to be the best in other people’s eyes…