Taking exams is one way to check on what students have learned from previous lessons in the classroom. Although some students argue that exams are unneccessary for them to learn, I strongly agree that exams are ways to make students to learn and be more interactive. My rationale behind this idea is that exams stimulate students to attend their class every session without absences or even tardinesses. In addition, since students are willing to get higher grades in their report card, they will give more effort to study for the exams.
For one, the students will avoid being absent, cutting classes and being tardy. Knowing the fact that scope of exams comes from the lecture, students attend class regularly, not missing a single lesson from the teacher. For example, during my highschool days, I aimed to get high grades in all my exams. This made me neither absent nor late for my class. Even when I was sick, such as catching a cold or high fever, I eagerly went to school and studied the lectures given by my teachers. If it were not for the exams that I had to keep up with high grades, I would not have gone to school and rest at home whenever I am sick.
Next, the nature of the students is to get higher and higher grades in their academics. This eventually results in students studying harder for their coming exams. When my sister was still student in college, she would go to library or internet cafe to search for more information about exams in her botany class. By searching and studying about the topic more deeply, she was able to learn more about the subject. Likewise, the students are willing and eager to study more to get high marks in their academics.
To sum up, exams play a vital role making the students to learn more because it will make the students to effort harder to get high marks as well as decreasing rate of absence and tardiness to attend class. As the old saying 'As one sows, so shall he reap' goes, if the students give powerful efforts in their academics regardless of the presence of exams, they will get corresponding results. |