Question

short essay on examination

Answer 1

Examinations are important but increase the stress level of students, this is further compounded by parental and teachers expectations.


Examinations are a necessary evil, with Examination fever, being a reality.

Examinations confine teachers and students to the syllabus defined at the beginning of the year.

Teachers are under compulsion to complete the same timely and for students the syllabus is the goal for doing well in the examination. They determine whether a student is fit for promotion to the next class or not.

Students are thus under a lot of stress to perform well in examinations.

Answer 2

Examination is a test of what one has learnt in the past. It tries to find out the depth of knowledge of the examinee through an organized test. It helps one to recapitulate his depth of knowledge.

It is not always true that by an examination one’s actual merit or demerit can be judged, because the system being a screening medium, everything cannot be correctly ascertained from a candidate’s answers, just by putting a few selected questions in the test. Success or failure in examinations is known as the common standard of judging one’s merit; but how far it is true is matter of doubt.

Examinations can, however, reveal to some extent the amount of industry, application and perseverance that student has undertaken.