Do you think exams are useful? How useful do you think they are?
I personally do not think they are useful. I think they are to track progress, but in terms of using them to determine your future I don’t think is right. The system certainly doesn’t take into account for the loss of loved ones (yes, it adds a small percentage onto the grade, but hardly enough), other things going on in people’s lives or even a minor illness during the day (e.g. hayfever, migraines, anything else). Not to mention intelligent people who crack under the pressure of exams. I don’t think work during the year is taken into account half as much as it should.
I’ve definitely missed a lot of points which I will add on if I remember them.
I think exams are important, but I don’t think that schools should require that students take them. Or if they do require it, there should be some sort of learning curve that benefits all students taking each exam.
I’ve had teachers make really difficult exams since they like to make us suffer (idk that was only 1 or 2 teachers from my old public school) so I think that there should be some sort of backup plan to help any students that may fail an exam.
I don’t think exams are accurate ways to showcase our knowledge, and I definitely do not think most colleges (maybe with the exception of Ivy League schools) should make assumptions of a student based off of test scores.
So, I can see why we take them and I understand why most schools require them, but from the standpoint of a student, I do not think exams are the best way to represent our knowledge and what we have learned.
I don’t think they’re much use. I don’t think that they really work well for anything other than math problems, since I haven’t really found well-designed exams that actually measure what was learned about in class well. I do terribly with remembering small details, so I’ve had my fair share of history tests I’ve done terribly on for that reason. I also don’t think that one day is a good measure of performance in a class overall.
Yeah I guess they are useful for when students need some kind of refresher or something that tells if they really processed the knowledge. But I don’t think it should be something students will be stressed as it comes.
I have a love hat relationship.
I just think exams and midterms are focussed on the wrong thing: memory instead of whenever or not you can apply what you have learned.
Yes, they are important. It forces you to study and basically an opportunity to refresh your memory. I realised its importance since the pandemic cancelled my exams. I didn’t know where I stand, and I lost my motivation to study.
I think it’s useful for refreshing knowledge but I just wish it wouldn’t matter more than anything because it’s hard for forgetful people like me and like sTuDyiNG is a thing but I will still forget it
I am literally studying to remember these knowledge for one exam and then forgetting it for the rest of my life-
and like sTuDyiNG is a thing but I will still forget it