Dec 13, 2005 08:15 PM
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(Updated Dec 13, 2005 08:15 PM)
EXAMINATIONS !
The word exams just creates a CHILL feeling passing through our bones everytime we hear it.
Young or Old.... When you have to give an exam ( Its your choice... NOT REALLY )... it just gives that chill. But, They are SO OVERRATED ! Questions from out of syllabus, chapters we have never read well , heard really, poor correction ( students should be given a chance to RATE their teachers Corrections... so I used to say ) and all that you can think of.
Students are virtually afraid of examinations. WHY ? Because all you have learnt or tried to learn have to put in the answer papers in those 3 hours itself and YES, they have to be the way the Person assessing your paper wants it to be. Oh it's true ! Except for MATHS and Accounts - ALL those with Predefined STEPS.
The assessment varies from examiner to examiner too. Students are not assessed by their past performances... so down with a flu, had a sprain or a hair - line crack... well.. WHATEVER ! JUST write down all you can remember and you shall be graded . Your future, your college , your scholarships, your JOBS all depend on your scores and not how much you know. Its very inaccurate I feel as here the real knowledge is not tested but if you can MUG up ( what a term ) and Spill it all in those 3 hours you are not needed to remember any of those ever again... AHem!
So wouldn't it be so nice if there were no exams. HELLO ! Reality CHECK !
SO, let us now look at the other side of the coin.
If there were no examinations majority of the students would not care to study at all. Bright and sinscere students ( Trust Me .. some still exist ) would be then lost among the dullards.... the rockstar, athelete, singer, actor wannabees........
we shall not be able to separate the gold from the dross, the bright ones from the dullards.Then to whom shall we give higher professional training. There is always a room, but at the top.... not at the bottom.
Exams are a great way to let you find out whether you really want to be a part of the whole THING ! Whether you have something really inside you which could come out far better. They let you know how much you can and need to know. And Yes, Knowledge IS THE ULTIMATE POWER.
The more we know , the more we can spread around and with us can grow our peers, our people, our society. It keeps you well, well educated and updated on all that you need to know to be able to survive the rat race at the end of the day!
Exams are the MAIN and probably only reason WE ACTUALLY STUDY WELL, with concern and thought, but its just the technique of examiners, those assessing it nowadays that has made exams so BORING and fearful.
But bottomline I feel, exams are essential and finally helps one to realise ONESELF. You look back and see how you have grown and where you can further grow. Thus a well learned society is a rich society and by living to learn, gradually we learn to live !
As I always say, The learning curve never ends ! Exams are tough, so WHAT? make them fun by keeping aside how you are going to be judged and write it for your sake and by god just keep doing better till you hit that BULLS EYE. There is only one spot up there . Be there. Have fun.
A + / - : WHO CARES ! Just go for it.
Life is far more beautiful to think about.
Exams .... what can I say... cant live with them.... well you know the rest!
Be well !
TD
