Examination: A Boost or Deter?

We learn in different ways because the rate of our assimilation is not the same, this examiners should know. “Does the inherent impossibility of traditional education, training, and other formal learning processes drive insane all of those involved for too long?” Clark Aldrich.

Examination is meant for self development. “If you treat an individual…as if he were what he ought to be, and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. But because people are not giving the opportunity to express and act their way, hence the new arrival called examination malpractice which is raving the school system.

The student needs to be very attentive with his eyes wide opened and his concentration on the positive. “My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is to disclose my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more” Og Mandino. The essence of examination is fault finding which after discovery in most cases are not followed up. Then of what use is the examination?

The role of the teachers is paramount in examination. The success or failure of the students is at times from the methodology of the teacher in terms of class management and control and mastery of the subject they handle. Some teachers are inept about the subject matter they handle, while others don’t attend classes. What then do you make out of it? Your guess is as good as mine. If examination and its examining body we have on ground is all we have for now, then there is need for holistic effort in that direct.

In conclusion, the final measure of a nation’s development rests in the well-being of its masses. Its education sector should offer the possibility of lifting the country from its mire of poverty and inequity. As a nation, we should strive to rise above all boundaries, with retrospect to our past, present and invest in our ideals and future.