Hiya!
That title has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm going to talk about, but it's still true.
I'm going to talk about why I think exams.
This is why they suck:
First of all, when compared with actual assignments, they're not reallt worth that much. It's like we get a whole week of school dedicated to something that won't really change our grade that much anyway.
Also, what's the chance that on that particular day, at that particular time, for that particular subject you are at your peak? Not very likely. Even with and entire years warning, there's no way you can be at your best for your exams.
For a lot of people, the pressure gets to them. They stress in an exam and no matter how much they actually know, they can't remember it all. It'll show up that the exam has a much lower score than they could've achieved if they were told it was a practise test.
So overall exams are annoying and cause so many people so much stress.
But! Here's why you should still do them anyway:
- Because it's not our choice
- Because trying to change it would take too long and we would lose anyway
- Because there's no other way to make sure that no one helps you
- Because even if it's only a little, it still affects your grade
- Because universities look at exam results as well as your grade
- Because people who've been in education for eons have decided on it, I think they know what they're doing
- Because it's easier to take an exam than it is to change an entire schooling system
Oh, and bonus fact about me: The reason I have good grammar and spelling and punctuation is because my father worked at a newspaper as an editor (but not the editor) and I got in the habit of writing correctly because he used to point everything out on my work. In time I found myself looking for it before hand. This developed into a habit and so now I write correctly because I get annoyed with myself if I don't.
Anywho, I believe that is all I have to say... except...
TWO MORE EXAMS! TWO MORE EXAMS! XD excited!
Ok, now I'm done
Ciao,
Shigure
So,
ReplyDelete1) Yes, there is always a choice. You're exaggerating there. One can choose not to go, to attempt to swim the English Channel (note that trying to get to said waterway is involved in the word 'attempt'), or to see how long one can play Twister in the middle of South Road without causing an accident. There are myriad options, an infinite number of choices one can make, and only a tiny, a comparatively infinitesimal amount of them actually involve taking an exam.
2) With such a defeatist attitude, of course nothing will ever change, because intelligent people like you deem it futile from the beginning and never begin to bother in the first place, never stick around to watch the dice fall. You complain about people complaining about having to do exams, and yet you yourself are, in a fashion, a closet apathetic, as with a large amount of people. This is, in fact, the very reason why changes are rarely made to established system; people are incredibly obtuse when it comes to change.
6) See point 2.
7) See point 6.
Oh, and that's an interesting point about your punctuation there; I think you could probably spice things up with a little semi-colonage here and there.
Yours rantingly,
~AR
Ok, I agree with the choice bit, I was a bit off there, but you know what I mean.
ReplyDeleteAnd my attitude doesn't mean anything. I don't mind the system because the system works. If someone wants to change it, however, they can feel free, but I just don't want to get involved in such trivial matters. Surely you of all people would agree with that?
Also, where did 3 through 5 go?
And semi-colonage is good; I think I need to use it more.
~Shigure