Testing our Knowledge
We had a test in physics this Friday and i was kind of worried about it. My teacher was telling me not to worry because the test was one of the easier ones and that i would ace it. So i felt good when he said that. But then the period came. I went into the classroom and opened the test and knew what all the answers were for the multiple choice and i felt good. Then i went on to the short answer problems and they were pretty easy except for maybe one of them that i skipped.
I moved onto the math part of the test and it was the hardest thing on earth! i thought that i had a lot of time left in the period to finish all of the problems, but i was wrong because our teacher announced that we had 10 minutes left and i was worrying. The math part of the test was nothing like what we did on the review sheet and i was so mad. I had studied my notes and the review sheets and the math part of the test was so different from all of what i studied. I was pretty mad.
Then the bell rang and i wasn't even done with two of the math problems! I had to turn in my test unfinished. Don't you think that teachers should like do something to like test how long it would take an average student to take the test so that they would have enough time to finish it? I think that teachers should make their tests shorter so that the students can actually finish the tests and get a good grade on it too. When i left the classroom there was still like half of the class there trying to finish the test.
Do teachers make tests too long?
1 comment:
I have to admit that I have had the same experience and more than once. The question that arises is whether taking the test in a specific amount of “time” is the goal, or do teachers really want to understand our grasp of the knowledge. I believe that if it is the latter, then all students should be given enough time on exams to show their knowledge. I also believe that asking super challenging questions should be saved for “extra credit.”
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