my view on exam

英语作文,400字以上

My View on Examinations

Examination is the most familiar word to the students since all students need to face it. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. And the examination is the way used to measure whether he is successful or not. Just as an old saying goes: Every corn has two sides. Examinations also cause many problems.

Firstly, too many examinations make students feel stressful. As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success or failure in the campus. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. Just like the College Entrance Examination. It doesn’t matter that you were ill, or that you had something urgent to do. Little things like that don’t count: the examination goes on. Secondly, as the examination score is the only criterion for academic performance, students are driven to memorize mechanically rather than to think creatively. A good education should, among other things, train students to think for themselves. The aim of education is to enable students to learn how to live, how to work, how to contribute to the society with their abilities. However, the examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the students are encouraged to memorize. Nowadays examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his