Exam is an irrational torture: I hate it!
Friday, October 30, 2009
, Posted by PaSsu at 8:39 PM
We call it examination time, the week long period at the end of the year to see if the students could go to next grade or get into college or a job. I wrote examinations for seventeen years of my life so far to rightfully hate it. I hate it because it lacks logic and I hate it because it is an official torture.How do you suppose a three hour test could justify a year long learning? Toughest of subjects like sciences in classes ten and nine are just given one and half hour of exam time. In a few hours you fill up a few pages and that goes to rewrite the destiny of your life, is it time enough for such a serious decision?
Let’s look at it professionally; is examination in anyway capable of accessing the achievement of vision of education? Education is countless values and life skill while exam narrowly test the book stuffs. The most disciplined, the most obedient, the most responsible, the most decent students go unacknowledged except for their test scores just as the naughtiest chap could walk out as the best. Where is justice? Is education all about testing the memory power?
Isn’t exam hall a torture chamber? Thank god we at least come out alive. Three hours is too short to justify a person’s knowledge and negotiate his future, but it’s too long a time for a young student to sit continuously on a hard bench without the freedom to move around. In these three hours a young child has to endure multiple trauma- continuous stretch of attention (at the most a child has an attention span of just 10 min), writing longer than ever before the pen blisters the fingers, the hard bench almost changes the shape of the hipbone, in such long sitting we can’t escape the call of nature that makes the mind restless, and the silence and the tiredness could welcome sleep. Forgive the teacher in me for carry this contradictory perceptive, but I must confess I hate it more as I watch my students struggle through the torturous hours.
I agree with the exams being in winter is really torture. We need to change our final exams onto summer and then have quite long break so as to help parents in the field or others or to take participate in other activities.
Its that period that students can have kind of agricultural classes and others like art or music or writing or outdoor activities so as to make students follow and nurture their interest...
Ofcourse, thats what our education system is really missing ...the education we have is really bookish one..no other activities are there at all...thats what i found out!
This is the first time I've visited your blog, and it's - excuse me - by chance that I stumbled upon it. As a teacher yourself as I understand from your blog, I think it's grossly inappropriate on your part to have made public your opinion about examinations no matter how justified, reasonable and scientific your observations may be.