ID: 1110587030
Course: Eng 105
Sec: 13
Date: 15/8/2014
Instructor name: Ms. Michelle Draper
2. Acknowledgement
First of all, I would like to thank my honorable faculty Michelle Draper, for giving me this topic to write a research paper on. I was always interested about this issue. Through my research, I could represent my concerns about this issue and find some answers. It was my first research work and it would have been hard for me to complete my research without help of my honorable faculty. She gave us suitable deadline in order to complete our research work and also in whole semester, she took update about our research work and gave …show more content…
Background
People have perception that Standardized exam is an important assessment method. Result related to this exam is globally accepted which indicates that it is a fair evaluation of students proper learning. Every year standardized exams contain same questions pattern and instructions. The format is same for all who take the exam and everyone should have the same correct answer. Purpose of this exam is to evaluate examinee with the same standard manners. Standardized exams exist because exam scores are considered the only numerical component of an application that is common to every applicant. Exams scores are basically a common base by which all examinee can be evaluated consistently.
Twelve year primary and secondary education is evaluated by a standardized exam lasting 3 hours. Most of the subjects for this exam require memorization. Students have to memorize a lot without proper understanding because in a limited time they to answer all question. Standardized exams contain multiple choice question and descriptive questions. These questions are straight forward and completely take from the book. For these reasons, students are not encouraged to learn rather than they encouraged for memorization sits for