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Should national exams be compulsory?

I think that national exams should not have such a high weight in the final
average for access to higher education.

We spent 3 years in secondary school building an average, working day by


day, striving to obtain results, be they positive, preparing ourselves to
achieve a good final average, to be able to follow what we want, to then in
120 minutes of examination, we lower this average. For in these minutes,
with the exam worth 30% of the grade, we can throw away the work done in
3 years. Fortunately, it doesn't happen to everyone, but it does happen to
many. A test can partly decide our future, more than that, the number with
which we are on the agenda and that counts for those who want to enter
college. Do they still really believe that in that test, in those two hours, they
will see what the student is capable of? We are evaluated in different ways
and throughout the year, either by tests or by evaluating our performance in
the classroom. National exams say nothing about the achievements and
difficulties of the learning processes and create problems. I think that we
are diminishing the role of teachers in the classroom and promoting
memorizing instead of logic, evaluating memory and not learning.

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