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My Views on Examination
Nowadays the examination is used as a chief means of deciding whether a
student succeeds or fails in mastering a particular subject in most colleges and
universities. Although it is efficient, its side effects are also enormous.
On the one hand, examinations lower the standards of teaching. Since
teachers are often judged by examination results, they are reduced to training
their students in exam techniques. No subjects can be taught successfully if
treating exam as a gole . On the other hand, the most undesirable effect is that
examinations encourage bad study habits. A examination is not the only criterion
for driving the students to memorize mechanically, but to think creatively
instead.
In fact, few of us admit that examinations can contribute anything really
important to the students’ academic development. If that is the case, why cannot
we make a change and devise something more efficient and reliable than
examinations?
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