by Zev Percowitz

Created on: February 13, 2009

Final exams are wrongly associated to knowing. I don't believe that testing a student on paper can assure anything but an indirect and losely attributable expectancy of intelligence. Tests are a passive and quantitative charge of unanimous bidding.

The education process certainly needs help, but not through testing. The problem is that school does not teach how to study. Study is a process. Explaining study through words of common intelligence bears no guarantee of clarifying the confusion. The "cure" for successful implementation and practical use of the prescribed and requisite content is,"study harder". What does that mean? Studying longer offers no better results, especially, if one is using the same attitude and persuasive impressions that he had used before. There is nothing benefical to being presented any kind of test for a grade. We do not need a test to show us what we don't understand. What we need is a means by which we can understand better. What I don't understand is; if an instructor sees that a pupil is not achieving better results in his classroom, why doesn't he see to it that this student improves rather than just sit there and tell him that he is not keeping his grades at a comendable level of competency?

Are instructors just not study friendly, or are they just strumming along with the piano music? The hinderance is in the negligent approach to inviting students to participate and during the class period wondering why one student is doing worse than another. Are mentally disabled people given an integrated status and left unchallenged? I think not. People are approaching study mentally unprepared for lack of knowing how to acquire it as knowledge. A final exam is like a final verdict. Convicting a person of being mentally incapable of functioning properly within a so called model classroom environment is not worthy of classroom attendance to knowing anything better. If one can not prepare any better for a final exam, then all he has to look forward to is the fear of performing substandard to his intellectual potential.

Fear impacts ones mind over time and converts to depression. Depressed is no way to participate with any activity. A depressed person feels as though this is how things are going to be anyway, so what's the difference. The final exam is the final draft of a grade to surpress ones ability by emblazing a letter on that part of his brain.

Whom do tests benefit most: The teachers. It is their way of proving that they are incoporating the schools curriculum to the schools administrators. I feel that tests arranged by the teacher test the teacher's capacity to instruct not the student. In this way all tests not only Final Exam's hinder the education process.

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