Exams are a
good way of measuring students’ knowledge.
Exams, a word of FIVE letters
that since we were young we are accustomed to listen, the reason? It is very
simple, we all study in a place called school where his principal aim besides
of teach, is to examine the student body to implement his knowledge. But… are
students agree, or disagree with it?
Firstly, I think that the fact that teachers examine students’ is one of
the most coherent ways of verifying that pupils assimilate the knowledge that
faculty inculcate them along the course. This, it is much easier for the
teacher, since it goes into the aptitudes of every student, and also for the
student because being examined is an opportunity to improve itself.
Secondly, doing exams along the course, do the students put into
practice all that they are learning. This is a great advantage, since even
thinking that they have a lot of knowledge about something, at the moment of putting it into
practice the pupil can feel confused for not having demonstrated somehow that
that he had learned, and the more coherent way of demonstrating it, is an
examination.
On the other hand, it is true that though the pupil knows a lot of a
topic of which later is going to be examined, can do a bad exam. In addition,
it is a bit illogical that what teachers evaluate is the theory that the
student has been learning during a period determined by means of a note that is
based in what the pupil has written in a sheet of paper instead of evaluating
and oral exam, since there are diverse factors that can alter the
accomplishment of a good written examination.
To sum up, I would like to end saying that I would reconsider how
to test students in a good way where the principal objective of them is not to
study to pass but study to learn. Nevertheless, we must be aware that is not
only the school who really tests us, because though in different ways, learn to
live life in a happy way is the most important exam that people can do. So... even if we like or not, reviews will
always be a part of us, written or not.
