The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judges decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiners. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a persons true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.
1. The main idea of this passage is
examinations exert a pernicious influence on education.
examinations are ineffective.
examinations are profitable for institutions.
examinations are a burden on students.
2. The authors attitude toward examinations is
detest.
approval.
critical.
indifferent.
3. The fate of students is decided by
education.
institutions.
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