Examinations are held to test the student’s ability, to check up the work they have done during the term, to judge what progress they have made and to see whether they have been utilizing or wasting their time. Examinations are, indeed, a necessity because it is also the fear of examinations that makes the students work. They know that if they keep on neglecting their books, they will be exposed in the examinations. They are aware that their results will be sent to their guardians who will take them to task if the results are not satisfactory. They also know that if they fail they will have to face a feeling of humiliation. All these things combine to urge a student to hard work. Examinations are, therefore, a spur to effort and an incentive to work. Examinations, sometimes fail to assess the ability of the students. A students may cram certain portions of his books and if a good number of questions is set from the portion he has prepared, he will no doubt, secure good marks, while another student, brighter and more intelligent than the first, may not show brilliant result because he did not prepare the questions which were set in the examinations. The element of “chance”, therefore, plays an important part in the examinations. Similarly, it may be said that the standard of marking all the papers is not the same, because different examiners mark different papers in different moods. Most educationists now agree that a single crucial examination is certainly no test of ability. They insist upon a series of periodical tests of knowledge and intelligence evenly spores over a period of two or three years. The results of all these tests, they say, should be taken into account while judging a student’s ability, the argument has, no doubt, a good deal in it but, on the whole, it may be said that good students do not usually show bad results nor do slow learners generally pass. Beside, there is no other way of assessing the knowledge, ability and intelligence of students. We must bear in mind that we have no satisfactory substitute for them Examinations help to promote the capacity to select the outstanding and important points from among a crowd of unimportant one and to do this in the minimum of time. Success in life depends, to a large extent, on the ability to seize the main issues and act quickly as circumstances require. If there were no examinations, the merits of various students could not be judged, nor would the majority of students take any interest in their studies.
Examinations are held to test the student’s ability, to check up the work they have done during the term, to judge what progress they have made and to see whether they have been utilizing or wasting their time. Examinations are, indeed, a necessity because it is also the fear of examinations that makes the students work. They know that if they keep on neglecting their books, they will be exposed in the examinations. They are aware that their results will be sent to their guardians who will take them to task if the results are not satisfactory. They also know that if they fail they will have to face a feeling of humiliation. All these things combine to urge a student to hard work. Examinations are, therefore, a spur to effort and an incentive to work. Examinations, sometimes fail to assess the ability of the students. A students may cram certain portions of his books and if a good number of questions is set from the portion he has prepared, he will no doubt, secure good marks, while another student, brighter and more intelligent than the first, may not show brilliant result because he did not prepare the questions which were set in the examinations. The element of “chance”, therefore, plays an important part in the examinations. Similarly, it may be said that the standard of marking all the papers is not the same, because different examiners mark different papers in different moods. Most educationists now agree that a single crucial examination is certainly no test of ability. They insist upon a series of periodical tests of knowledge and intelligence evenly spores over a period of two or three years. The results of all these tests, they say, should be taken into account while judging a student’s ability, the argument has, no doubt, a good deal in it but, on the whole, it may be said that good students do not usually show bad results nor do slow learners generally pass. Beside, there is no other way of assessing the knowledge, ability and intelligence of students. We must bear in mind that we have no satisfactory substitute for them Examinations help to promote the capacity to select the outstanding and important points from among a crowd of unimportant one and to do this in the minimum of time. Success in life depends, to a large extent, on the ability to seize the main issues and act quickly as circumstances require. If there were no examinations, the merits of various students could not be judged, nor would the majority of students take any interest in their studies.
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