Exams in Spain.

Exams are terrible, aren´t they? Nowadays, our educational system is based on exams to gain efficiency and knowledge, which can be really stressful. But are they the best way to evaluate students? Exams are not efficient enough for learning.

To begin with, exams are not effective because all the content you have studied for is going to be forgotten in a short period of time. In addition, most subjects are not useful in real life. That´s why exams are passed by memorizing and not thinking by yourself.

Another reason is that we are judged by our marks and we are treated as numbers and not as people. It has consequences, for instance, although there are people who are absolutely intelligent, their marks are not the best because of the anxiety they suffer.

Last but not least, students do not have enough time to do other things apart from high school. There are other aspects which are necessary like doing sports, relaxing or even sleeping. In some courses there is no time for sleeping and this is very unhealthy.

To sum up, there can be better ways to prove students´ knowledge than doing exams. We need the government to think about that. 

Borja Rivera, Álvaro Serrano, Javier Ortega, Jorge Rodríguez and Chema Mera.