ALUMNI - 1st Composition

Exams are an imperfect but necessary part of evaluating students. While exams cause stress and may not accurately reflect a student's knowledge, teachers have no better alternative for assessing large groups of students. Exams require extensive effort to grade but allow teachers to determine if learning objectives were met. Students are not entirely to blame for failing exams, as teaching methods could be improved. Overall, exams should continue to be used, but students should not have to repeat all subjects just because they failed one exam.

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1st Composition: An Essay

Exams are an unnecessary evil. Do you agree?

Exams: the necessary evil

Every single student of any kind of course, who has already taken an
exam, has also considered the idea for at least an instant of changing the way
that teachers should use to evaluate their students. The basic reason for this
kind of thought is that exams can be very unfair. Exams are simple tasks, from
the point of view of the teachers, of course, who have only to make some
questions of what they have spent a whole year speaking about year after year.
But for students, it is a moment that will decide if they can move with their lives
in order to achieve their objectives, or if they will have to spend another year
taking the same classes, stating that all their efforts were in vain.
First of all, it is necessary to make clear that teachers do not give exams
because it is the easiest way. The correction of the exams requires a lot of
work, once teachers have to try to figure out what each student intended to say
in their answers and if it really answers what was being asked; and, depending
on the size of each class, it turns into a very stressful task. Nevertheless, exams
are a simple prove that the students have learned, and sometimes better that
group projects, where a smart student can take advantage of their colleagues.
On the other hand, the students could not be completed blamed for
failing on exams. Sometimes the teachers do not make the objective of each
argument or technique clear, and, for the student, the subject that is being
taught turns into a bunch of information that does not make any sense and due
to the lack of competence of one teacher on one specific subject, a student is
forced to have the same classes of all the subjects for another whole year.
To sum up, it undeniable that exams are the best way to evaluate
students and that the teachers should continue to use it. However, it not just
because a student fail on a specific discipline that he should be forced to have
all the disciplines again. Maybe, considering the independence of all disciplines
in all education level would make exams much more acceptable.