【一起闲话英语】对于考试的看法-Tasking Tests

 Rese / Botswana 

speaker I think.. all people learn, because they give you the opportunity to evaluate how much you know and how far you've gone with whatever it is that you're learning, and they give you a chance to also see how close you are with your peers¹ in the class.

 

Lindsay / United States

speaker I think tests help people learn, because they hold you accountable for information. Otherwise, even with myself, if I know I'm not being tested on it, I might write it down, but I'm not going to absolutely spend the time to sit and learn it, so they hold you accountalbe. That's why people are--

 

Sunny / Korea 

speaker Yeah, definitely, I think tests help you to learn, because they can review the things and then organize the knowledge in a systematic² way, too, when they prepare for tests, and they can adopt many learning technologies when they prepare for tests.

 

Paul / England 

speaker I think tests are good in a sense that students are able to kind of organize their study. I think overreliance on tests is a bad thing, whereby³ the test result dominates⁴ the student concerns. The focus should be, I think, more about learning rather than test-taking.

 

Katia / Mexico 

speaker I do not think that tests help people learn. I actually believe it's quite the opposite: tests would stress some people and it tends to make the students memorize rather than learn. So, I really don't believe that tests help students learn.

 

Tim / United States 

speaker I think some tests are good because they motivate people to learn. But I think a lot of people have the tendency to study for a test very hard, to do well on a test and not really appreciate what they're learning, because they're only concerned about just getting a good grade on the test.

1 peers   

n.同等的人，贵族vi.凝视，窥视vt.与…同等，封为贵族v.凝视( peer的第三人称单数 )；盯着看；同等；比得上

参考例句：

• She enjoys the respect of her peers. 她受到同侪的尊敬。
• She peers into my eyes. 她盯着我的眼睛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 systematic   

adj.有系统的，有计划的，有方法的

参考例句：

• The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
• The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。

3 whereby   

adv.靠什么，靠那个

参考例句：

• Whereby shall we know her?我们靠什么认出她呢？
• Whereby I saw that he was angry.由那一点我看出他生气了。

4 dominates   

v.控制( dominate的第三人称单数 )；在…中占首要地位；在…中具有最重要（或明显）的特色；在…中拥有最重要的位置

参考例句：

• The spire of the tower dominates the foreground. 塔尖在前景中占了主要地位。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The company dominates this segment of the market. 这家公司控制着这一部分市场。 来自《简明英汉词典》