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Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

 - Class of 1938

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SHOULD HAVE PINAL EXAMINATIONS The roaGons why v c have final examinationo are purely in relation te the loosens studied, not because the teachers want to make it harder for the students. Pinal examinations toll just hov; much of wiiat the student has learned during the year ho has retained in his memory. If there were no final examinations solic students would not learn things; they viTould only ronomber thorn until the monthly examination was over. Since a final examination covers only v hat is studied during the year, the student v ho has studied his lessons and learned each one thoroughly has nothing tc fear concerning the outcome. Most of the monthly examinations given during the year are not to see how much the student knows, but hov much he doesn’t knov . Tiic purpose of those is for the teacher to find out just what the class needs more study on. In this way the narks of the class as a whole can be brought up to a better average. I sincerely think that if every pupil thoroughly learned his lessons every day, and every pupil received a good mark- B or A-- in tlio final . examination, there would be no further need of final oxam.inations . In this case they v;ould probably be abolished. The final examinations no Icngcr play an important part in the marking for the year, for it is not right to count one examination for as much as three or four months’ v ork. If there were no final examinations in Barre High School I do not think that Barre would hold its Class A rating very long. This Class A rating makes it r.iuch easier for Barre graduates to enter college, because if they do good v;ork in high school, the principal can sign a certificate for them and they v ill be spared the job of taking an entrance exam- ination to enter college. For the reasons which I have stated above, I believe that final examinations arc a benefit to the school as a whole both to students and to teachers, because it gives them a good idea of v hat the student has learned during the year in a manner which is not hard for either teachers or students. It is reasonably safe to say that if the student has remem- bered his lessons for all the school year, he will remember them iTiuch longer. Harold Lackey ‘’38 WHY WE SHOULD NOT HAVE FINAL EXA::INATI0N3 ’ - The students’ main argument for the abolishing of final examinations, Finals are too much v;ork, is one that is founded on the students’ first thought on the subject. In a v ay these pupils arc right, for finals arc more work than ordinary exams, yet there arc more sensible and convincing arguments to be used in support of the abolishment of the time-honor custom. In former years the exams counted one- third of a student? year rank in a subject. Of recent years this practice has been eliminated. Why was this system stopped? The school

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