Essay on examinations.

Currently, in schools and colleges, examinations are mostly presented in the form of tests. Tests can have their benefits, but I think there are other ways of examinating which also could be beneficial. Namely, essays and daily works.

These modes of testing have large numbers of advantages. To start with, they continuously give students a goal to work towards. As human beings, students tend to procrastinate, it is in their nature. Therefore, they begin studying for tests only a llitle time before they take place. And the time they are not studying is lost time for them and for teachers. It is not necessary to explain why it is lost time for them, it may be more complicated to understand why it is a loss of time for teachers. Well, they are losing time because they talk to attendees that neither understand nor are paying attention since they do not have the motivation to do so, they see the tests period a long distance away and they prefer idleness rather than studying.

What is more, essays or works make students to live the process of creation, a process which triggers imagination and creativity and can be much more rewarding than sitting for an exam. In addition, this process raises doubts and odds are that students are much more prone to remember a doubt they solved than a sentence they studied by heart. Creation also helps students to link and understand content and I believe this is a much more fun way of learning.

All said, tests provide a very practical method for comparing students. The daily correction of works and essays requires much more resources. This is to say much more teachers. Furthermore, the comparison of students becomes much less subjective in tests, eliminating any possible favoritism.

In conclusion, I am in favor of taking tests to compare the students. Nevertheless, I think these tests must be accompanied by other kinds of examinations all along the year which would help the students with the most important task: learning.