IELTS writings: [Essay 2] Task 2 Essay: Testing

Thursday 12 February 2015

[Essay 2] Task 2 Essay: Testing

Focus on IELTS, page 122

Task 2, Essay

Too much emphasis is places on testing these days. The need to prepare for tests and examinations is a restriction on teachers and also exerts unnecessary pressure on young learners. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Exams and tests have always been discussable things. Is it better to do they or not? As always, it depends. I believe that examinations are necessary, but frequency of doing them should be rethink carefully.

First of all, too many exams in primary schools exert high pressure on kids. It can cause problems which can be seen later, like a depression or low self-esteem. Being compared all the time with peers is not a pleasure. Feeling of constant rivalry is really horrible.

But are all children equal? I do not think so. Alter each year (or at least once after primary school) children should be assess. And here tests or another form of examinations should take place. I remember my tests at the end of primary school and they were not pleasant. But thanks them we knew where we should go: to technical or vocational secondary schools , somewhere else or nowhere.

I have heard that nowadays teachers have to prepare minimum one test per month in primary and secondary schools. This trend to test children and students every month causes that teachers concentrate rather on preparing and making tests and not teaching students how to think or gain knowledge useful for their future work.

On the other hand, if students know there is an ongoing exam, they study harder. No gain, no pain.

For these reasons I strongly believe that examining learners is integral part of teaching process. Tests are important, but it would be great to let children and students live and not only learn.

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