Exams in School

Exams

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EXAMS IN SCHOOL

DIANA OESE SCHOOL

Presented to:

Teacher: Cesar A. Espinosa C.

Presented by:

Johnattan David Ochoa Sanjuan

Grade and List Number:

8° - 1 No. 14

February Writing Activity:

Persuasive Essay

February 21st, 2016

Albert Einstein once said “everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing, it is stupid”. And is worst knowing that, this educational system, make them literally, also decrease from the tree. Educational systems believe that students need to do exams for measuring their skills and capacities, which is totally wrong; in tests, teachers are not developing student´s skills, if not, their memory and how some students have good test-taking skills. Perhaps that´s the reason why so many students, who really understood the topic, fail their quiz. Exams were initially created to monitor and check how a student is performing academically, they now have so much more pressure on them, that students waste all their night to study for a test. They have become more and more stressful and this results in some students becoming ill due to that stress and lack of sleep. It is also a well-known fact, that when it comes to exams students compete, not only with themselves, but with other students. This ends in wanting to study just for beating others and, at the end, no knowledge learned. So, do exams are really necessary?

Memory is a resource we will have to use several times in our lives; when doing a presentation in your job, when doing an exposition to your class at the university, but the problem is when we abuse of it. The most common time we do a ‘bad use’ of our memory is when taking exams, and, as well, preparing for them. This is due to the big quantity of data students have to study just for an exam. A psychologist from the Neurologist Center of California states that memory is one of the principal reasons students fail their quiz. This means that students who learned all the test by memory, will probably forget more than the 77% of the concepts. Imagine yourself in an exam, and you forget just a single word from the answer of the question. When you use memory, just by forgetting a word, the rest will be also forgotten. Putting memory to work like this is totally bad because students will just learn, by memory, what the teacher is going to ask in that specific test. Two or three months later, he or she won´t remember anything about what the teacher explained in that month due to learning by memory and only for an exam.

When thinking about an exam, students should think in a test in which his/her knowledge and understanding of the topic are going to be proved and measured; therefore, letting know the teacher if he or she is performing correctly. But unfortunately, it isn’t like that. Students think in exams like their enemies, like a headache. When they know they have a quiz the next day, students automatically think in spending long hours awake, using the time to sleep, to study for a test. It is worst when they, the day of the exam, fail it. This comes to depression, luck of continuing studying and feeling uncomfortable with him/herself. Shriners Hospital for Children, a hospital located in Chicago, affirms by an article on its website,