Should Examination Be Abolished ?
Have you ever heard the shocking news about an Indian girl who committed suicide after have a bad result for Primary School Evaluation Test (UPSR)?. This happened because of the emotional distress and pressure that existed in her circumstances making this poor girl lost her sanity. This is one of the disadvantages of having a public examination. Public examination can be defined as a test is prepared by the ministry of education to test the performance of students and the examination will be conducted simultaneously throughout the country. For example UPSR , PMR , SPM and STPM. There are many disadvantages of the public examination. Therefore, I agree that the examination should be abolished due to several reasons which are examination are not reliable way of gauging the true ability of student, examination is not the best mean to evaluate certain skill of the student and examination is lacking of its validity.
To begin with, public examination are not a reliable way of gauging the true ability of students. Many students simply memorise what has been taught and regurgitate the facts during examinations. In that respect, they are merely exhibiting lower order thinking skills as expounded in Bloom's taxonomy of learning. If student has a poor memory and fails a public examination, does it mean the student is not smart? . At best, public examination only seem to evaluate a student's ability to memorise and retain that memory until the time he sits for an examination when he has to recall the information. Furthermore, examinations are a summative form of evaluation. If a student fails an examination, does it also mean that the student has not learned much in the years that particular examination supposed to cover?. That would be a scary thought indeed. Examination neither promote higher order of thinking skills among students. nor do they identify with skills. They are merely a good indication of...