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Examinations encourage children to study? #1 (permalink) Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:07 am   Examinations encourage children to study?
 

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Most education systems rely on examinations to encourage children to study, but as a result, children suffer from too much stress and they never learn to be creative. Therefore, examinations should be abolished. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Examinations have been considered as the effective ways to measure children's knowledge. However, with so many test required, it is unavoidable that students become stressed and this stifles their creativity. There are cases children suffer mental disorders whenever the exam come; they stuff their head with full of knowledge by rote learning, or burning the midnight oil in order to learn as much as possible, instead of thinking deeply into taught subjects. The fact is all are afraid of getting low marks; some, because of this, even cheat in exams.

Yet, this argument is only true for excessive exams. If properly and moderately carried out, no doubt will exams have positive influence on learners. For many, stress is an impetus that drives people toward better performance. That explains why from work, study to entertainment environment, tests are entailed to pressure people to revise what they have learnt, measure their current level, and hence, help them make in-time adjustments. Were test not to be organized, we would be always disoriented and amateur learners, not knowing both our strengths and weaknesses and at which level we were right now on the ladder of knowledge.

Also, as the proverb goes "necessity is mother of invention", only until people are put in a challenging situation can they exercise their brain to com up with innovative solutions and learn to balance their time wisely. To exemplify, a student, when given exactly two hours to deal with two difficult math exercises, has no way but learning to divide his timing carefully, for fear of running out of time.

Not only do students need tests to see their maturity in knowledge and skills, but teachers also base on tests to do an autopsy on their current methodologies. Realizing there is something wrong with students' performance via exams, they may find out that their lessons are not that effective as expected, perhaps too overloading or too easy; and train their skills continuously in response to demanding requirements of today's high-quality education.

All thing considered, we all need tests, whether old or young. Exams are to help classify both students and teachers for the purpose of achieving a good education, but, educators should keep in mind unless tests are all constructed with clear purposes, that learners might suffer from unnecessary stress and unwanted impediment in creativity is inevitable.

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Examinations encourage children to study? #2 (permalink) Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:19 am   Examinations encourage children to study?
 

Speaking out loud my essay is very interesting!!! ^^
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Examinations encourage children to study? #3 (permalink) Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:40 am   Examinations encourage children to study?
 

Most education systems rely on examinations to encourage children to study, but as a result, children suffer from too much stress and they never learn to be creative. Therefore, examinations should be abolished. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Essay:

Examinations have been considered as the effective ways to measure children's knowledge. However, with so many testS required, it is unavoidable that students become stressed and this stifles their creativity. There are cases WHERE children suffer mental disorders whenever the examS come; they stuff their head with full of knowledge by rote learning, or burning the midnight oil, in order to learn as much as possible, instead of thinking deeply into taught subjects. The fact is THAT THEY ARE all are afraid of getting low marks; because of this FEAR SOME even cheat in exams.

Yet, t This argument is only true for IMPORTANT exams. If properly and moderately carried out, no doubt will exams WILL have A positive influence on learners. For many, stress is an impetus that drives people toward better performance. That explains why from work, study to entertainment environment, tests are entailed INCLINED to pressurISE people INto revisING what they have learnt, measure their current level, and hence, help them make in-time adjustments. Were test not to be organized, we would be always disoriented and amateur learners, not knowing EITHER our strengths OR weaknesses and at which level we were right now on the ladder of knowledge.

Also, as the proverb goes "necessity is THE mother of invention", only until people are put in a challenging situation can they exercise their brain to comE up with innovative solutions and learn to balance their time wisely. To exemplify, a student, when given exactly two hours to deal with two difficult math exercises, has no way but learning to divide his timing carefully, for fear of running out of time.

Not only do students need tests to GAUGE their maturity in knowledge and skills, but teachers also base DEPEND on tests to do an autopsy on their current methodologies. Realizing there is something wrong with students' performance via exams, they may find out that their lessons are not that AS effective as expected, perhaps too overloading or too easy; and train their skills continuously in response to demanding requirements of today's high-quality education.

All thing considered, we all need tests, whether old or young. Exams are to help classify both students and teachers for the purpose of achieving a good education(.) Educators should keep in mind THAT unless tests are all constructed with clear purposes, that learners might suffer from unnecessary stress and unwanted impedimentS in THEIR creativity. is inevitable.
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Examinations encourage children to study? #4 (permalink) Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:17 pm   Examinations encourage children to study?
 

Thank you sir!!!^^
It's hard to achieve your high score-10 is an example:D
How can I do? Any suggestion for me, MM?
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Examinations encourage children to study? #5 (permalink) Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:45 pm   Examinations encourage children to study?
 

Make it interesting and grammatically correct in every respect. (nearly is OK.)
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