Scrap The CCT’s

Every year, students have to take Common Class Tests, known as the CCT’s, which is an exam taken every end of a term by students. They are forced to study hard and most of the time, they are force to pushed themselves hard late into the night in order to do well in these tests. Well, I cannot deny that the CCT’s makes one keep up to his academic standards and maintain consistent study. But is it really necessary at all?

Exams are good for us to know what our abilities and skills are. If there were not any exams, one would not see the sense of being taught. However, there are also bad sides of taking exams. First of all, exams are very stressful and they give some students a very hard time and as a result, they forget all the acquired knowledge.

Moreover, taking exams is sometimes a waste of time. A student may have been preparing and studying hard for years just for an important test, but then the results may be unsatisfying. They may not do well in it and be heartbroken. What a waste of time and energy! Besides that, the examiners may be unfair when marking the exam papers. For example, an examiner may give a much higher grade compared to another different examiner even though they are marking the same exam paper. As a result, the marks acquired will not be accurate.

Besides that, exams do not often reflect the whole knowledge of students. A smarter student may fail a particular topic but an average student may get a higher grade in the same paper. This is because the smarter student might not have been exposed to that particular area of knowledge while the other student has already learned it. Exams can never really determine a student’s ability as they do not often cover a wide range of knowledge but more to a certain subject or specific topic.

Some of the students study just to pass their tests, and totally forget about it after that. It certainly makes no sense and brings no benefit to a student. We often judge a student whether he or she is clever by looking just at his academic results. But a student’s results might not reflect his true ability to do things, as his interest may point to a specific field and do not take interest in other things.

Even though some people did not pass any exams, they still make a carrier and earn a lot of money and are famous and respected by people among them. In conclusion, exams are not necessary in our lives. Exams could always be replaced with assignments, quizzes or even sometimes mind games and puzzles, leading to a more fulfilling life of a student.

Scrap the CCT’s in schools! It’s the right choice to make that will be beneficial to all, students and even the teachers.

People Work Better If They Are Paid More

Mode: pathos

Ask any worker, any employee about the salary they earn from their month's work. They'll be sure to tell you in some way or another that, "Its not enough." Even when they say that they get good pays, there is sure to be a "but now..." or "things have change..." tone in it.

The word "more" is a driving force behind a worker's initiative to work. The more they get, the more enthusiasted they become. Its natural for men to behave greedily and yearn for more than they should get, as just surviving is not the only thing men wants. Therefore, it leads to the fact that people would of course work harder if they are paid more to get a better life. They need not to worry about things like getting their bills paid up or even finding food, but get to live comfortably.

Imagine yourself as a student, a teacher, a doctor, or even a toddler, in everything you work for, in every step you take, in every decision you make, wouldn't you want to get more than you would suppose to get? If you are on the "no" side, its either you are the special kind of person who does everything just for the sake of doing it, or......you're lying.

What Is An Exposition?

Exposition is one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse that provides information about or an explanation of difficult material. The purpose of exposition is to inform, explain, analyze or define the author's subject to the reader. Expository text is meant to give information and is frequently used type of writing by students in colleges and universities. A well-written exposition remains focused on its main topic and has logical supporting facts. Connectors of sequence such as first, after, next, then and last usually signal sequential writing.

Exposition can be divided into fiction and non-fiction. Examples of nonfiction expository writing include textbooks, how-to essays, recipes, cookbooks, business correspondence, personal letters, news features, press releases, research reports, scientific reports, dissertations, wills and encyclopedia. Nonfiction exposition can be further classified into five categories: sequence writing, descriptive essays, classification writing, comparison writing and cause-and-effect writing. Sequence writing lists events or steps in chronological order; descriptive essays use the senses of sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing to provide readers with a mental image or feeling about the subject; classification writing uses an organizational strategy to arrange groups of objects or ideas according to a common theme; comparison writing shows the similarities and differences between two or more subjects; while the cause-and-effect writing, which is also known as analysis, identifies the reasons for an event or situation.

Within the context of fiction, exposition is the fiction-writing mode for conveying information. The information may be in the form of facts, explanation or opinion and may be used for a variety of purposes, including the development of plot, character, setting and theme. Exposition can be one of the most effective ways of creating and increasing the drama in our story.

However, too much exposition can seriously be frustrating the readers. Why should we learn about exposition? The reason is simple. Exposition is the type of writing that is most frequently encountered by us in our daily lives. When we pick up and read a magazines or newspaper article, we can see that the author uses expository writing to inform us about the topic. At school, the school exams and research papers that require us to submit to the teacher for grading are mostly in the form of expository writing. Finally, at work, we are to produce business reports and proposals of some projects to inform our superiors and co-workers. These reports and proposals are all in the form of expository writing.
We encounter expository writing everyday. Therefore, it is crucial to us that we learn it.


Taken from: www.wikipedia.com