
Originally Posted by
rezashena
This topic is about :“ Only formal examination , written or practical, can give a clear picture of students true knowledge and ability at university level. Continuous assessment like course work"
One of the methods to assessment students is examination, it often faces with some problems though.
One of the methods of assessing the abilities of students is examination, this method is however faced with a few problems.
Firstly, examination is arranged in a certain time of specific day. So all of the students could
FIrstly exams are usually conducted at a certain time of day which means that not all students
not have same conditions duo to some accidental problem. Sometimes it was done in spite of
are able to fit them comfortably into their schedules due to various factors including but not
one student has an awful time before the exam because of sick, an accident, died the her or his
limited to such things as sickness or the deth of a loved one e.t.c.
relatives suddenly, or something like that. In addition, another important problem that causes
Another problem faced by some students is stress.
some students to lose the chance in exam is stress. Stress can prevent student to have a good
Stress can cause poor performance during an exam due to side effects such as headaches,
exam, so students become nervous and sometimes they get headache, stomachache and else.
nervousness and other symptons.
In addition to,exam made a improper competition between the students, it was seen even it
their families. Hence parents put the student under the pressure to get a good grade with criticize them for bad or not good mark on an examination.
Additionally there is a lot of competition between students and even their families who often pressure the students into either getting a good mark or being faced with criticism.
Everything that was mentioned about the exam was a fact that no one can denied it, but its not cause to abolish the exam because of more advantages of examinations. In parts of stress and competition, they are not bad thing all the time, actually stress and competition force the students to keep up with other students specially for lazy ones that are use to postpone their course work. Accidentally problem, first of all its not happen always and if its happen its only for a little students not most of them, but one way to solve this problem is midterm examinations this situation enhance efficiency and reduce stress, competition and likely the accidentally problems.
Depsite the aforementioned undeniable facts it does not constitute reasonable cause for abolishing examinations as the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages, in a positive light it may be seen that competitive stress is beneficial in that it forces lazy students into action,
and while a few students are disrupted by unforeseen problems midterm exams tend to alleviate a lot of the stress related issues.
In conclusion, I think examination is a good way to estimate the students, and it can be a effective factor to improve the knowledge, but its not enough, so in order to get more clear picture of students, its equally important, if not more important, to have continuous assessment like class activity and projects.