Success in formal “pen and paper” examinations is often seen to be a sign intelligent. To what extent do you agree with the view that formal examinations measure intelligence?

There is no doubt that formal examination is a common measurement to evaluate the capacity of students. In my perspective, I strongly believe that not only formal examination can measure intelligence, but

also learning process

Suggestion

also a learning process

is able to assess accurately the ability of the pupil. At the outset, I concur with

this

belief that “pen and paper” testing will figure out competency. During the whole academic year, students will prove their intelligence by flying colours in the exam. To reach good results, they have to learn industriously from researching documents to doing small tests with the aim of reviewing every corner of knowledge. Thanks to hard work, their potentiality can be taken account perfectly. To look at it from a different side, formal examinations are insufficient to measure the cleverness. It depends on all studying process that they demonstrate in the entire year. I expect to give a salient instance; a student always makes efforts to do every test in

this

time before examination happens. Almost teachers assume that he is perfect and perhaps the

last

testing is not a huge wall for him.

However

, because of health or family problems, he cannot overcome

this

exam in the best way. At

this

time, these teachers may not criticize that he is a bad student.

Therefore

, personally, to evaluate the potentiality, let us consider all aspects of students. To put it in a nutshell, the competency of students is not simply based on the outside of “pen and paper” testing, the inherent capacity

also

plays an indispensable role in the evaluation process.