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The methods of testing a person’ s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. After all these years, education
The methods of testing a person’ s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. After all these years, education
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2018-03-27
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The methods of testing a person’ s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. After all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the skill of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’ s true ability and aptitude.
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none
. That is because so much depends on them. They are markers of success or of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured.
A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress.
The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. 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 judge’ s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person ’ s 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 am a teenage millionaire.
Why does the author mention the court?
选项
A、To give an example.
B、To compare.
C、To show that teachers’ evolutions depend on the results of examinations.
D、To prove the results of court are more effective.
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词定位到文章倒数第二段末尾。其表明:审判官裁决之后,你仍有上诉的权利。然而批改试卷人给分后,学生没有上诉的权利。所以法庭在这里被提及的目的是引出考试的弊端并与考试做出比较,故B项“用做比较”正确。A项“举个例子”、C项“表明教师的发展取决于考试的结果”和D项“表明法庭的结果更有效”均不符合题意, 故选B。
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