The Public Education System As we know that the examination system has come to be the main theme
of modern education. Every one from his early child-hood should take
endless examinations and succeed in passing them, before he could
graduate from a college or university. As much importance has been
attached to it in school education, it has been subjected to mounting
criticism as to its validity. People in favor of it praise this system
to great extent; and those oppos-ing to it maintain that such a system
should be abolished.
A lot of people think that the examination system should be abolished.
In the first place, because of the existence of the exami-nation
system, students go out for gaining high marks so that they often
forget the main purpose of education. Many so-called "clever" students
are nothing but bookworms who merely know the skeleton of knowledge.
The aim of education is to enable stu-dents to learn how to live, how
to work, and how to contribute to the country with their expertise. To
do this, the students must re-ceive training, in physical as well as
mental areas. But the present examination system has discouraged
students from making such an attempt.
Furthermore, since the students try so hard to memorize, in a short
period of time, as much as possible, psychologically, they will forget
the whole subject as soon as the exam is over. Surely, this is one of
the greatest wastes ever made in the history of hu-man civilization.
I do have t...
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... primary age; exams are rare
there nowadays. The inequality is much less at secondary level.
Examinations encourage competition and favour academically gifted
students; the less able (who actually need the most help) get
neglected.
The problem of "mixed ability" classes would exist whether we had
examinations or not. The solution is to find better ways of organising
classes and to employ more teachers.
Research has proven that different examiners grade student papers
differently; indeed, the same examiner will often give different marks
to the same paper after a few months!
Modern examination boards have sophisticated "moderation" systems for
ensuring that marking is done fairly. In addition, most examinations
include practicals or orals, so a student’s result does not depend
completely on written work.