The trouble with exams

The trouble with exams

the idea of the exams hasn't really changed for centuries. While the world is very different. So the skills for passing exams are as old as the hills. Here is a list of something that should be mastered and brief critique of why it isn't important : Ability to write legibility in the exam and reasonably quickly in long hand, especially for a levels. Why when we have computers in most of our daily and work life? Memory Exams and the test of learning is mostly if not entirely about memory. Both long and short memory. Crack your ability to memorise and you are nearly all the way in getting a high mark in the exams. How does this relate when memorising facts is a poor use of time when the Internet is ubiquitous. Exam Technique:

Technique of sitting exams putting down too much and over writing would harm one’s grade. Time management in an exam is key to success. Although in real like is far more nuanced and unlike the challenge that exams ask of you.

Are exams reflective of the work a pupil puts in? If one gets flummoxed or fails in answering big parts of the question paper well for reasons of beyond knowing the subject is quite easy to do with poor exam technique. The 'one shot and you are done' approach will mean a majority of unexpected poor results will not be rectified. Remarkably it can be quite straightforward to mess an exam up. So without the training of the correct technique the exams cannot do justice to the candidates ability.

Are all examiners equal? Examiners are humans and make mistakes. They can interpret the guidelines different from the next. This is especially in the arts and humanities subjects, less so in the science and Maths. We talk about the change that is coming in a previous blog. In the humanities and arts there is an argument there is no such thing as a correct or perfect answer. It is all in the interpretation. Exams affect us all.

Though everyone transcends the bureaucratic hurdle that exams really are. Exams do open door for some people and can improve the candidates sense of confidence while giving guidance for the future.. If the exam system has produced a poor result for the candidate and thus hasn’t open doors it could be argued that the damage it has done is more than the good it does for others.

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