Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic My Views on Examinations. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below:
1、大学都用考试来衡量学生的成绩，
2、考试可能带来的副作用，
3、我对考试的看法。
In most colleges and universities the examination is used as a chief means of deciding whether a student succeeds or fails in mastering a particular subject. Although it does the job quite efficiently, its side effects are also enormous.
To begin with, examinations lower the standards of teaching. Since teachers are often judged by examination results, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques. No subjects can be taught successfully merely through being approached with intent to take examinations. In addition, the most undesirable effect is that examinations encourage bad study habits. As the examination score is the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is driven to memorize mechanically rather than to think creatively.
In fact, few of us admit that examinations can contribute anything really important to the studentsacademic development. If that is the case, why cannot we make a change and devise something more efficient and reliable than examinations?
在大多数学院和大学考试作为一种主要的决定一个学生是否掌握某一学科的手段。虽然它的工作很有效，其副作用也是巨大的。
首先，考试降低了教学标准。从教师常常被检查的结果，他们被迫训练学生的应试技巧。没有人可以仅仅通过接近成功的应试教育。此外，最坏的副作用是考试鼓励坏的学习习惯。由于考试分数是衡量学生学习好坏的唯一标准，学生只是被动的机械的死记硬背，而不是创造性的思考。
事实上，我们很少有人承认考试对学生的学习会起什么真正重要的作用。如果是这样的话，为什么我们不能做出改变，制订一些比考试更有效和可靠的？