Entrance examinations are administered in many educational institutions in selecting students for admission and measure each one’s potentials. The entrance exam will serve as a standard that will assess the student’s capabilities. Entrance exams are basically determinants of the basic knowledge of the student and compare the preparations made by the students who go to different high schools. It is used to determine if the student can go through the four years in college and to check a student’s talent and knowledge in a particular field. In this way, the institution will see if you have challenged yourself and built a strong academic foundation in your previous level. College entrance exams will help you prepare that student to go through
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One of these disadvantages is that it does not really measure the student’s capacities and capabilities. It does not follow that those who have high scores in the college entrance exam will have a very good academic performance in the whole duration of college because an entrance exam is a one time exam and taking an exam is a multi-factorial phenomenon. It is affected by a number of factors and it is not in the many exams you will take in the four year that you have the same condition as you were when you were having the entrance exam. It does not necessarily follow that if you have a good entrance exam you will probably graduate with honors or even pass the board …show more content…
What's more, the scores don't provide very much useful information for evaluating a student's achievement, a teacher's competency, or the success of a particular school or program. To make such judgments, you need to move beyond the scores themselves and make some inferences about what they might mean. The assumption underlying standardized testing is: When we want to understand student achievement, it is enough to talk about scores on standardized tests. Accepting this assumption at face value, as nearly all journalists, pundits, and politicians do, is to fall prey to a "dangerous illusion." "Achievement" means more than a score on a standardized test. (Harris,
One of these disadvantages is that it does not really measure the student’s capacities and capabilities. It does not follow that those who have high scores in the college entrance exam will have a very good academic performance in the whole duration of college because an entrance exam is a one time exam and taking an exam is a multi-factorial phenomenon. It is affected by a number of factors and it is not in the many exams you will take in the four year that you have the same condition as you were when you were having the entrance exam. It does not necessarily follow that if you have a good entrance exam you will probably graduate with honors or even pass the board …show more content…
What's more, the scores don't provide very much useful information for evaluating a student's achievement, a teacher's competency, or the success of a particular school or program. To make such judgments, you need to move beyond the scores themselves and make some inferences about what they might mean. The assumption underlying standardized testing is: When we want to understand student achievement, it is enough to talk about scores on standardized tests. Accepting this assumption at face value, as nearly all journalists, pundits, and politicians do, is to fall prey to a "dangerous illusion." "Achievement" means more than a score on a standardized test. (Harris,