EXAMS ARE NO ULTIMATE DETERMINERS OF DESTINY

I have always argued from the view of exams being used in all wrong ways to decide who is 'clever' or who is 'stupid' or a 'fool'. Well, this is according to society and from the video below that I definitely agree with, the same society poses the most unthinkable as the norm and the non-human acts as human rights.

 

Well, I am an educationist, so I say the following from a personal experience of many years in school of which I am still a student, and yes, I love books, it is  true that patience and hard work in academics bare amazing results.

Back to my argument, why would someone be thought of as stupid just because they did not much revise on the topics brought in the exam paper when  all the 'clever' one might have done is get lucky on the topics that were set. I mean, the best crammers are considered the best students, not everyone is a good crammer, some may need more time to gather knowledge than others.

 There is a very big advantage of considering students' talents and awarding them for being different and exemplary in extra curricular activities, I do not however say that the academic geniuses should not be awarded, all great efforts should be recognized.

By the way, a teacher is an individual who sets an exam from their own perspective of what are the most important topics according to their personal understanding. Therefore, if I am not very conversant with a topic and cannot connect with it, I have no other option but to suffer the consequences of a choice of a teacher who may already have put a label over my face. How terrible?

 

 

Again, some students may be very 'book-gifted' and they do not necessarily need to study to do well, while others work very hard, day in day out reading but they cannot be number 1's, therefore I believe that there should be different ways of rating students; from the historical, physical abilities, and emotionally basis. For example a hungry student and one struggling with domestic violence cannot be looked at from the same level with the one from a happy or well-off background.

 

If all these and many other factors are considered, no student should be labeled negatively. It is no wonder that most of these students drop out of school, because as a human it is impossible and unbearable living and functioning in the same environment where you are most unappreciated, misunderstood and stigmatized.

 

With all said and done, I do not advocate for cheating during exams, because there is a clear cut between an ungifted student and a lazy one. Lazy is a wake up call and not a stigma to the concerned students.

 

 

Well, enough said, watch this captivating piece of poetry for further deep awakening as far as this topic is concerned.