exam based education

Let us first consider what the education is…. Education is the wealth of knowledge acquired by an individual after studying particular subject matters or experiencing life lessons that provide an understanding of something. There are many modes of testing one’s specific knowledge in a particular subject matter in the field of education. Exams, viva tests, interviews, and online tests are some of them. In prevailing education system in Sri Lanka, exam based education is the most commonly used system. Exam based education system is a system which tests knowledge of the students using different types of exams. According to this system students are suppose to sum up the gathered knowledge at this so called examinations. It’s pretty obvious they have to buy-heart most of the things that they learnt in order to pass those examinations. In this system there’s a particular syllabus, and the students are framed in that limited area of a particular subject. They really do not try to go out of it and they are just like frogs in the well because of their exam mentality. They memorize things just as parrots. The general education system is focused only on examinations rather than training students for the future and really testing their knowledge. Because of this, students are forced to take tests that show only their retention powers, not their actual capacity or knowledge. So engineers today cannot do actual work in technology and doctors do not go to people who need their services. Today, students are completely professionally-oriented and they take examinations for the same rather than to gain knowledge, or do research in the subject. Even in the field of medicine, no one is motivated to do research because everything is so examination.

The worst outcome of this system is, students become more theoretical rather than being practical. They get marks in their exams but still they hardly know how to use their knowledge practically. And the increase in competitiveness and