In people's life, they should take a lots of exam. Moreover, it has a huge effect on person's future.
Especially, exam is more important during school life in Korea. Students have to take over four-times of regular exams and the sham examination for university entrance examination is option. Parents and educators firmly believe that exam is not only right barometer but also stimulating students to study harder. However, as a person who is experienced, I am against that statement. The importance of examination have to decrease. As matter of fact, examination gives feelings of failure to student. Furthermore, an exam is becoming a goal not tool.
To start with, examination sometimes drive a person to despair than encouraging. an extreme case, there was student who killed himself in Korea. All people have a suitable method to be a smarter student, moreover which is not all same. Especially, students who are encouraged by grade and competition are not many. Let's take my experience, when I was high school student, My grade was d D or C. As take a exam more and more, My despair was deepen. Teacher punished me or gave humiliation to stimulate me study harder. but It doesn't work. However, I didn't give up and end up enrolling university without any problem because of my parents. They helped me to do not lose confidence for score. They did not blame me for low grade. What encouraged me to get higher score is the their love and urging not exam.
Furthermore. I want to warn people the situation of nowadays is that an examination is treated as a goal not a measure. The Korean(언어영역) exam is just barometer to measure of person's level of native language. The important thing is ability to speak or to comprehense the Korean not choosing the right answer from five sentences. People have to realize that Students are studying for exam not language.
For example, One of my friends, her English grade was always A at. All school mate thought she is good at english. One day, my friends including her encountered foreign professor. He asked them how to get cafeteria. As a result, they pass him to her, but she could not speak any word. Finally, they took direct him to cafeteria. As a result, My friends realize that grade means nothing.
To sum up, The disadvantages of exam far outweigh the advantages as aspect of urging students. Exam makes student feel dispair than encouraging. Furthermore, it makes them focus on 'exam' instead of learning. It is not what I stress is that exam is bad. I merely want to let you know the proper position of examination, as a measure.
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