Some students are scared of the idea of continuous assessment through the year’s curriculum studies and tutorials. I think it’s rubbish about only those who write fast or remember facts doing well in examinations, because I think it will be found that performance in exams does reflect the amount of work done during the year.
In today's times, exams are pills of frustration and stress. The concept of exams, today, is very restricted. Teachers should evaluate students in various forms such as personal projects, research, written tests, speaking, drama, and other exciting activities where the student feels challenged and desires to showcase his or her talent. Exams lead to comparison and discrimination.
Self-evaluation tests should be conducted, wherein the student does not feel inferior and learns from his or her own mistakes and apply acquired knowledge in diverse forms.
students should be given an assignment that allows them to demonstrate and use what they learned.
They are always stressful no matter how much a student has prepared. It is this stress that ruin our performance. Also many talented and skillful students may not be better scorers in exams. So exams really does not test one's ability
In any process of education, the existing structure of the examination and its effects on the educational process- has been increasingly criticized.
The nervous strain which examinations cause is evident every summer. The same emotional problems recur year after year. Is it all worth it? Is the exam system really necessary – and if not, what is there to replace it?
If only Exams have to decide the student’s future; then the system is destroying the creativity and originality which education is all about. You’ve got to cram all these un inspiring facts in to get the right percentage to get the right job.
I feel there should be more variety in the examination system, in the sense of providing more opportunities for projects during the term, more emphasis on learning and less reliance on the exam results themselves.
Exams are not the be-all and end-all of the years’ studies. “As educators, we can usually tell by the end of the year just what kind of grade a student is likely to obtain in the exams. There is rarely a case where exam results conflict with the student’s performance throughout the year.”
Does this then mean that exams are unimportant, perhaps expendable?
The advantage of exams is the fact that they are impersonal. It is not the personal opinion of his teacher or lecturer which gives the student his degree classification.
It may be unfortunate, but it is a fact that most students are coming to university with the attitude that to get a degree opens the way to a secure and highly-paid job.
Others argue that it is an important intellectual exercise to test the ability of a student to work out a problem in a certain time.
The criticisms concern the nature of education, the position of the individual in the system and the relationship between student and teacher.
The only thing to be said in favor of exams is that they force you to think and write under ‘crisis’ conditions. This does not need any debate, only the perception to look into the real problem is required; so that we could really understand the child psychology and help them out to perform better in life. Let’s make an effort to raise a confident and self-reliable generation.