Sitting here in English class panicking about all the assignments that i have due it doesn't help to think that i also have a final exam coming up in this course. Now most people would tell me not to worry because it's only English right? I mean really how hard can an English final be? Well the level of difficulty regarding the exam is not the issue. No it is the long drawn out process of the writing and trying to have time to re-read what you've written and edit it. Seriously who has the time or patience to do that after having spent at least and hour and a half writing till you feel like you're finger are going to suddenly fall off because you can't bare to write anymore. Not to mention that on top of the pain physical pain caused from non stop writing you also develop a massive stress headache because you are under so much pressure to finish your exam and to do it well. I can't stand it.
I don't even understand why we have to have final exams. Honestly we spend enough time coming to classes, doing the requires work, assignments and tests as is. Is that not enough torture for us students? If you are capable of achieving high grades all throughout the semester, you've attended most of your classes and you have a good overall average I don't think you should have to do the exam? All it does is stress the students out and put far too much weight on one exam? Honestly is that fair? What if you haven't slept the night before the exam or something traumatic had occurred the morning of you writing the exam? Now because of a series of events that was out of the student's control they are going to loose everything they're worked for that semester just because they had a bad day? The overall result will be a grade that does not reflect the student's academic ability but will cause them an extreme amount of grief as it may close off some opportunities that may have been available to them if they had received a better grade on their exam.
I feel that final exam's shouldn't exist. I don't feel that one exam respects a student's academic ability and i think final exams just cause far too much unnecessary stress on the students who have to write them. I feel the workload without final exams is enough and if final exams were no longer a part of the requirements to graduate students would excel at school because there would be a huge amount of stress taken off their shoulders. I think there should be no such thing as final exams.
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What is the exam in this course even about? Haha are we gonna write like a bunch of arguments?
ReplyDeleteAlso I agree with you logic, but if exams were taken out of the curiculum everything else would be weighted higher. For example most tests are worth 8 or 9 percent of the year, without the 50% final, the tests would be worth 16 or 18 percent, if you bomb one test, you dont have the chance to make up for it on the 8% of that section on the final, it could actually screw a lot of people over if you think about it!
But yeah, I hate finals just as much as anybody else, I hate logics. haha