Exams are not the best way to assess students. I believe this because giving the same test to different students is not going to accurately assess students levels. I’ve seen people struggle and be tested unfairly because they think in a different way from others. 

Everyone is different and has different difficulties than others. According to Critical Thinking Podcast there is 10 types of thinking. Critical thinking, analytical thinking, creative thinking, abstract thinking, concrete thinking, convergent thinking, divergent thinking, reflective thinking, emotional thinking, and lateral thinking. You can clearly see just by that that there is so many ways and one test is not going to cover all ten of them.

Students also get bored in the middle of exams. Somewhere near the middle-end of the exam, students may lose focus or interest in what they were assigned to do and just end up winging it. Usually people tend to do this because they are mentally fatigued after working the same way for such a long period of time. 

Some people also tend to react to environments differently. Students can sometimes focus in loud, chaotic rooms, while others cannot. The same for quiet rooms; if its completely silent, that might bother some peoples focus. Sitting in silence can amplify internal sounds, increase anxiety (for some), and in extreme cases sensory disorientation, which can be very distacting.

I feel that we might be more successful if we did final projects to use examples of what we learned, rather than sitting and circling multiple choice answers.