Persuasive Letter For Research Paper

Dear Stone Ridge Upper School faculty and staff, do students really need final exams? Why should students be put through the agony of having to study hours on end? Students already have enough tests throughout the year that final exams are not really needed. Both students and teachers would benefit from not having finals. Teahcers would not have to grade any more tests, and students would not have to study for any more tests. It is a win-win situation. Any student would agree that teachers give enough tests and homework during the year to add up to multiple final exams. If this issue is not resolved soon there may be multiple consequences facing much of the Upper School community. Final exams are given to test students on the information that they have learned throughout the year. This is a way for teachers to test their students to see if they have retained everything they have learned over the school year. Students overall would prefer anything than to have to study for their final exams. This makes it especially challenging for those of us who are quite antsy and do not sit still when taking long tests like finals. Tests and quizzes are given perfussusely throughout the school year having no need to give finals in May. There is no honest answer except to test students, as …show more content…
For one, I defiantly do not think so. Teachers find no pleasure in grading papers, let alone giving exams that will take forever to grade! Teachers should understand exactly how a student feels when she has to sit at her dinning room table for hours on end studying the information she learned back in September and October. That is another point, students are not expected to be able to remember everything that they learn, so why put that lesson we learned back in October on an exam in late May? These are the types of questions that need to be taken into account when thinking about this