Exams are a silly idea.
I think exam are the stupidest thing in the world. Yes let’s cram all that you have down in a whole into an exam that will fry your brain. The reason why exam are a stupid idea is because you have a test on everything you have done this year and you study for it but you still get a bad grade. What is stupider is when you try your hardest and you might not be the best in that subject but you pay attention and take down notes and then you fail the test and then someone else who pays hardly any attention in class and doesn’t study managers to get one of the highest scores in class.
I think the way they should see if someone really knows what they are doing in that subject is to have a test on what they have been learning about in the past three weeks because then they can absorb information better and not have to stress about getting a really good work. I think also instead of making exams like 50% of someone’s ATAR they should make all of their score come from the mini tests and projects because that is when you can really tell if someone is paying attention. They put in the work and effort and in exams people just stress out and might have done really good in the year but they fail their exams and then not go into uni because their score was to low.
Hopefully someone with a brain might change the school system to make it so your life doesn’t depend on exams and more depends with how much work you put in at school because some people do actually miss out on doing what they want because their score was to low to get into what uni course they want to do.

