Writing Task #8

Matriculation exams have always been an integral part of a regular high-school student's life. During the 3 years of high-school each student takes part of several exams in different subjects. Those tests are known for their cruelty and being treated as life changers. As a student who's taking part in these exams I am going to write whether those exams are reliable or not.

First of all, I would have to mention the fact that those tests are given a way bigger credit than they can hold. The fact that each year there appears to be a different level of difficulty on the same subject pisses me off. The whole point of the bagrut exams is to have a unit of measure and comparison between the students. In reality, it's not that simple. The fact that each year the difficultry changes can result way lower grades on one group of students and way higher grades on other group of older or younger students. That means that in the future, those younger or older students which got lucky to recieve a much easier test have a leverage on me later in life (university).

Second issue I want to attend to concerns the copyinh between students in the exams. Lost of it.

In times where the tester is too old to hear or see anything or whne he walks into the bathroom or simply a weaker minded woman that can't hold under pressure from the students and lets them copy. It happens quite frequently and it is very disappointing and irritating.

to sum up, I believe you you got my idea about those tests. I believe that in order to have a better measurement of comparison there should be a single big test that touches a wide variety of subjects and copying or cheating would result jail time. A similar idea would be the pshcymetri which is quite succesfull on filtering the weak and giving the tuly strong students many options.