The Importance Of Exam Exams
Classroom exams are something that is such a waste of time, and an added stress for any student. Knowing that regardless of the circumstances, if an exam is failed one is labeled as being stupid, senseless, uneducated, and numerous other names. Why are exams something every student lives or dies by? What does an exam prove? I can answer that question in seven letters, NOTHING. …show more content…
That way that time wasted on studying for something that will serve no purpose in the “real world”, can be consumed with things that every working adult American will face at some point in his or her life. Taking an exam in a course does not cage a student’s knowledge of that subject or material. It displays the ability to cram the information into ones head long enough to write down on paper. Once the answers are written down on the exam, that knowledge of that task usually gets left on that exam. Exams are not the most effective way to determine a student’s understandability and retention of the course