The Fear of Examinations
Students look upon examinations with contempt; they make all possible effort to avoid them. Educationists are against them and are thinking of abolishing them.
Critics find felt with them. In spite of condemnation from all quarters, examinations persist. They seem indispensable in every walk of life. They are like milestone on the road to education and life.
Examinations are not necessarily the sure test of the ability of students. They are judge from what they perform in the exams. Sometimes the most brilliant students are not able to do justice in such a short duration.
On the contrary a student who has not touched the books the whole year gets good marks because all the questions he prepared just before the examination were asked.
Shakespeare never passed any examination yet his works have won world-wide recognition. The world’s greatest scientist Einstein, father of the atomic age failed in Mathematics. Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru were not record-breakers at the university though their personalities shook the whole world. Examinations do determine the value of majority of the students, but the geniuses have often proved misfit at the examinations. With all the faults, examinations are an incentive to hard work. They are indeed a necessity because it is only the fear of the examination that makes students work hard.
Examinations are a necessary evil. It is not possible to do without them. They will remain in one form or the other. After all, this life is a long examination and we have to take it.
