Tests and examinations are a central feature of school systems in many countries. Do you think the educational benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages? Give reasons for your answer, and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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whether
any student has learnt the knowledge taught in class is imparting them with a test or
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to be sure that they are learning all the information.
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the importance that the public eye and the institutions have over examinations is bare draconian, people see students as
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marks and not as other intellectual individuals that may have different strengths, the biggest disadvantage is that people get to put their faith in a piece of paper claiming it is the
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true
way to evaluate someone. The institutions and public eye have a draconian way to see exams due to lack of flexibility and
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old mindset that assures a
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person
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person's
value is not just but a bare mark obtained in an
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is for pass a level in school or for obtaining a job, corporations, schools, don not have in mind other aspects like the
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person's
personality, emotions, feelings. Nowadays there has been a recent interest in the absurd amount of blind faith society has put in tests, not taking in mind that
some times
on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always
sometimes
these exams could not be well
planed
designed or carried out according to a plan
planned
, possessing a high amount of errors, or not even well structured, can make anyone fail or obtain nor the real grade they deserve, and even if it is not an accurate
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schools along corporations, institutions, will take
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grades as the knowledge these students have, making exams end up been not only useless but unfair. In my
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opinion, we
have a hive so much in the recent years but still we do not progress more due to the persistence of those in the power that only
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perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
see
people as grades, marks obtained in an
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, we don not see these individuals as human being that the date of the
exam
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may have had a bad day and
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can affect in the result, because if that
person
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could not give its 100% that may finish with a great job opportunity or to reach a scholarship in a university. At the end of
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have reached
uncountable amounts of
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progress, yet we
still see examinations as
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blind justice that even if it is not well planed has the power over a
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. Society, schools, corporations,
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does not get
to see the people behind those marks, because the knowledge a
person
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has will never be represented by what a piece of paper dictates.

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