Why So Many Exams

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Romarc Kevin Ingel BS-Accountancy I-D Why so many exams? Exams are the grand finale of quizzes. They are the measuring stick of one’s progress thus far. Exams are a tool used to measure if all of that repetitiveness paid off. Let’s say "it's a necessary evil". Exams according to Wikipedia is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics .Exams may be administered orally, on paper, on a computer, or in a confined area that requires a test taker to physically perform a set of skills. A test may be administered formally or informally. An example of an informal test would be a reading test administered by a parent to a child. An example of a formal test would be a final examination administered by a teacher in a classroom or an I.Q. test administered by a psychologist in a clinic. Formal testing often results in a grade or a test score. A test score may be interpreted with regards to a norm or criterion, or occasionally both. Bertell Ollman wrote an article entitled “why so many exams? A Marxist Response”, the article was divided in five parts. First is all about the education system, it says here that some reforms about the educational system are not really effective at all and not working. The other topic says that one shoul practice repeated often enough for that we can exercise an extraordinary effect on how and what we think. Exams teach us even more than they test us. Second part is the discussion of the myths that surround exams and exam taking in our society. It says that exams are a necessary part of education, are unbiased, are objectively graded, an accurate indication of intelligence. That all students have an equal chance and do well in exams, exams are the fairest way to distribute society’s scarce resources to all. And having a fear of it are necessary for
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