Tests and examinations are a central feature of school systems in many countries. Do you think the educational benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages?

Nowadays different educational theories promotes various types of examination and assessing intelligence of students. The most wide-spreading practice is testing.

However

,

this

is the controversial technique among educational scientists and they continue arguing about its strengths and weaknesses. As for positive sides,

First

of all testing is mainly used to check factual information that students learned from studying process. So, testing can assess their intelligence and skills. The

second

reason is that students are in the equal condition and they can demonstrate their knowledge and compete each other in a fair way.

For example

, when the government gives scholarship, the testing method is a unique way to evaluate student's knowledge and compare them each other.

Also

, it gives them motivation to study and improve their skills.

Moreover

, testing system has negative sides.

First

of all, sometimes we cannot assess the ability of students by one mechanism because all human beings are individual and they need special approach. And as several educational scientists propose testing might be stressful for some students and they can lose their motivation. In conclusion, based on analyse many examples and educational theories, we can say that there is no unique way to assess all students skill and knowledge. Sometime we need different approaches in order to give them the chance to demonstrate their possibilities. And to support my argument I can give you an example that we cannot evaluate the skills of a monkey and fish to give them exercise to climb the tree. It will unequal and unfair to them and generally in society at all.