Topic 1: SHOULD EXAMINATION BE REPLACED BY OTHER

ASSESMENTS?
AFF: Arguments
1. Can not present abilities of students
- Cause of stress, cause worry and anxiety
- Too much knowledge to learn
- No memory of the things they have learned after the test
 Compared to parrots, repeat what they have been told, without actually
knowing anything
2. Not allow students to share their ideas
- Graded by answers provided by keys given. Not flexible, only the responds
match the key will be accepted. Force students to give out “correct” answers
according to their teachers more than what they actually think.
- The mindset since they were small, and not willing to share their ideas in the
future. What they share is what they think the teacher will consider it as a
correct answer, not the respond they comprehend
AFF: Refutation
1. Traditional exams are still effective way for some good reasons
- Measure a student’s academic performance
- Not time-consuming, worrying about meaningless competitions.
- Learn how to manage their time properly
- Most popular way, can not be replaced
2.Traditional exams are marked dependent on the answers given by the
teacher.
- Most answers been taught during the lessons, learning courses, opinion can
be given in classes to fixed.
- Access learning abilities and study attitude.
Ex: Answer correct, not as teacher’s answer, will be scored normally.
NEG: Arguments
1. Exam anxiety is good
- Do better in the pressure. Help focus and have better time management
skills.
- Establish study time-table. Well-prepared for work afterward.
2. 2.Exam improve quality of education
- Make the teacher understand more about flaws and errors students are
having to correct them in time
- Provide affective techniques for students to study more effectively.
NEG: Refutation
1. Tests require studying, depress the students, and frequently decrease their
mental energy at a young age
- Failed to manage time: poor grade
 low-self esteem, and self-blame
- They need to learn more freely and not under any harsh surveillance, more
flexible hours equal more working hour.
- Time pressure is not always good for everyone
2. School exams frequently do not provide opportunities for students to
demonstrate external soft skills such as teamwork, presentation, and
communication
- Which is what they actually need in real life. Most jobs acquire these skills,
test can not add that to pupils’ lives
TOPIC 2: ARE SELECTIVE SCHOOLS BETTER FOR CHILDREN?
AFF: Arguments
1. Provide a good learning environment
- Selected on criteria, teachers are acquired to be better in that field, 1 teacher
teaches many classes.
- Provided better school equipment, make students feel more comfortable
2. Get to be with people who share similar interests and motivations.
- Major in 1 subject will have at least 1 thing in common, same level of
education, same abilities. Help making friends
- Educate each other in other filed beyond their own knowledge.
AFF: Refutation
1. Need to learn other kind of soft skills
2. Higher rate of competitive, unkind
 Depression, stress, anxiety, suicide, et cetera

NEG: Arguments
 1. Not all students with good grade can enter selective schools
- Expensive
- Located in center of the city, students in suburb can not attend because it is
too far

2. Highly competitive environment

- Carry expectation from parents and guardians, pressure on themselves,
require better grades, achievements
- Neurological problem if suffer in long term
NEG: Refutation
1. This problem is easy to solve. The selective schools have policies to
encourage and attract students with high academic ability.
- Scholarship and bus, rented accommodation
2. Boost children to study harder
- Learn stress management skills
- Motivate to work harder
Topic 3: Should healthcare be free for all residents