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

Today’s reality is that in many countries examinations are one of the main parts of the modern educational system. Although this is only my opinion, I think that the advantages of writing tests or examinations do not outweigh the disadvantages.

Firstly, a percentage of people might disagree but, everyone truly knows that not sleeping all night just to prepare for a test and sacrifice a part of your mental health is truly a nightmare. Students get stressed, have breakdowns just because of a piece of paper, quite tragic. However, it is not the only drawback. Secondly, lots of students despise it when the teacher compares grades, it makes them feel like rubbish, they lose inspiration to continue spending time on education, in addition some students might even lose confidence. Lastly, let us not lie to ourselves, we all know that most of today’s tests do not check our knowledge or logic, what they really check is the strength of our memory and how hard or quickly can we cram information.

Let’s proceed to the advantages of examinations. Firstly, as we all know there are competitive people, and people whose confidence might get increased because of the fact that they have a higher grade than all of their classmates, these people aren’t exactly egoistic, they just like to feel superior and what is provided today in the grading system is a cherry on top for them if they work hard enough. Secondly and lastly, the experience which you get because of writing a number of examinations might help you in your future challenging tests, some might imagine examinations as a wall which is ought to be destroyed by time, and as the time goes and you get better at knowing quick ways of preparation and studying hacks the wall gets crushed easier.

To conclude, the listed disadvantages are greater in number than the advantages, and I still do not agree with the fact that it is worth suffering for a grade but! suffering for the experience is a different question.