Assessments

Assessments - Day 44

Assessments are just one of those things that for me, just makes me confused and unsure what to do. Assessments are just tests to see what level you are on in class, to make sure that your on the same level that you should be learning at sort of. Some assessments are just some regular test to test where your at, but then some assessments, teachers just exaggerate so much and just makes you feel that if you fail it, your going to change sets and move down or move up depending on what set your in. Some assessments are genuinely like that and can actually change and move your sets; those types of assessments you actually need to lock in and actually start revising to do good, but for the rest, it is sort of like, why bother, why care to revise if your going to learn it again. I understand that you want a good grade and want to show to your friends and I am not against on revising for a useless assessment, like, just like me, I also would revise for a test that doesn't matter but I just don't like how teachers make it feel that we need to revise the test all just ourself and instead of learning the stuff that are going to be on the test during lessons, instead we just learn something else that won't be relevant until next term after a few weeks after the test.

I definitely would advise those who are unsure of the topic that they learned that term and is having a test to definitely revise for the test so that you actually do good, or even better, ask the teacher for help and possibly for revision sheets for you to revise on so that you could do even better on the test.

Sometimes, a week before the test, the teachers really hype up the test and about how it is going to be very hard and that it is a higher test, and usually higher tests are really nearly impossible, and it actually are, because these higher tests usually show some type of questions that are only taught to us about a week after the test, but that is only for math, but for English, science and the other lessons, it is mainly just what we learned a few weeks ago, and a little bit of what we learned recently. This makes it harder for us even more because it makes us have to actually revise on what we forgot as it was a month ago from the last time we had actually learned it.

There are a few effective ways that I found that can actually help you a lot when revising for a test. Number one is to actually revise on the questions that give a lot of marks and to also revise on small subjects that give you small marks, like one, but usually that one mark questions will appear a lot of the time and usually the answers are just one sentence, or a tick question, or even a one word question for you to fill in as it gives you 3 different options to put in the box which is very easy.

As for the questions with a lot of marks, only learn certain parts that are necessary. For example, if there was a subject, for example like the elements on the periodic table, and there will be a question about certain elements, just like oxygen, carbon dioxide, or chlorine, there will be definitely be questions about how to tests for those elements or about questions about its structure or what it is made out of, for example, copper oxide, is made out of copper and oxygen or a balancing equation. Only revise on the stuff that you actually learned, as those are actually the most useful, as if there is a question that you haven't actually learned yet, you have the right to ask the teacher on why that question was there and possibly there will be some sympathy for the students and give you extra marks. For example, in science I got a question completely wrong, but the thing was that, even though I got it wrong, I kept going with the equations and the question, so I got 2 marks for continuing and correctly going with the questions instead of just not doing it.

More ways to revise and memorise for your test that are upcoming is also by asking people around you questions or answers that you have to answer and they have to answer. This will help you revise and memorise from what you have learned, and with the stuff that you can't answer, you will at least now know what you need to work on in that subject. This is usually used during class for a lesson, even though we know that the lesson is just going to be wasted we are all just going to be just wasting and playing around with the paper they provided with us and also that we aren't even going to be using the paper unless it is like last minute before the test will happen. Or also that if we literally can't do anything and the only thing to revise with is those papers, so when we have nothing to do, we just pull out the paper cards and we ask each other those questions and we have to answer it. It is pretty fun as we usually just play around and have fun that we are just lying to each other that we got it wrong or that we give them a even more scientific way than they said it. Like if they ask what the squeaky pop test is for, and my friend says oxygen, they would respond with some scientific goofy answer like the only element that could react with this type of test would be the scientific element of oxygen and hydrogen, giving us air, giving us that squeaky pop that we get from combustion.

Anyways I don't even know anymore what I am talking about so that is pretty much all I have to talk about, and for those who are actually trying to revise for a test, it is better to just get real advice from your teacher as that is the best. Get the best advice from the main source. Okay, that is all for me to say now, thanks for reading, Goodbye.