Cancel Tests? You Will Regret!

Every student has the experience of having tests. Generally speaking, a student has two to three tests of each subject every semester. A student will have up to about thirty tests in a year. It’s undeniable that students don’t like tests. Then why do we still have tests in school? Is it necessary to keep the test system? Although the idea that canceling tests is inviting to many students, we should still keep the test system because without tests, students will lose their motive to study, and through tests we can see students’ learning outcome and achievement. Moreover, the pressure of test-taking can also promote students to learn better.
Some people claim that students’ hard work for getting good grades in tests makes them become test machines. They say that under the test system, students only care how to get good grades but don’t know how to apply the knowledge they learn to their lives. Therefore, many bookworms are very fond of studying textbooks but don’t know how to deal with their problems in real life. Moreover, since those bookworms only want to get good grades in tests, they memorize knowledge without understanding it. However, a good test in fact gives a way to us to see the students’ abilities, and also to show their learning problems. We can’t judge a student just by his grades but tests do provide a referable standard to know his ability. Besides, if there are no tests, students won’t study and not to mention apply knowledge to lives. A good student who really understands the true fact of knowledge and really hopes to be a wisdom person will know how to apply it to life. The test is just a tool that forces students to study, not an elixir of education.
There are still some people against tests because they believe that the strong stress put on students by tests is too heavy to them and may influence their developments. The heavy pressure also makes tests become students’ nightmares and therefore students will try hard to escape from tests sometimes in drastic ways such as committing suicide. Nevertheless, according to some research, the truth is that under certain pressure human can absorb more knowledge and learn better than usual. In addition, the knowledge human seizes under a circumstance without any stress is easier to be forgotten. Pressure is so important to learning and since tests can offer it, they’re supposed to be remained.
Despite the fact that there are many people advocate getting rid of tests and practicing “happy learning,” tests should never be absent in the education system. If the government really does cancel tests, at the beginning students will feel happy but in the end they will all fail. Tests’ importance can’t be underestimated and we really should keep it.