National exams should not carry such high weight in determining a student's final average for university admission, according to the document. It argues that 3 years of secondary school grades built through daily work should not be significantly impacted by the results of a 2-hour exam. Weighing the national exam as 30% of the final grade can undo years of effort if a student performs poorly on the test. The document also questions if a single test can truly measure a student's abilities and suggests evaluations throughout the year provide a better assessment than national exams alone.
National exams should not carry such high weight in determining a student's final average for university admission, according to the document. It argues that 3 years of secondary school grades built through daily work should not be significantly impacted by the results of a 2-hour exam. Weighing the national exam as 30% of the final grade can undo years of effort if a student performs poorly on the test. The document also questions if a single test can truly measure a student's abilities and suggests evaluations throughout the year provide a better assessment than national exams alone.
National exams should not carry such high weight in determining a student's final average for university admission, according to the document. It argues that 3 years of secondary school grades built through daily work should not be significantly impacted by the results of a 2-hour exam. Weighing the national exam as 30% of the final grade can undo years of effort if a student performs poorly on the test. The document also questions if a single test can truly measure a student's abilities and suggests evaluations throughout the year provide a better assessment than national exams alone.
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.