Letter to the editor

   15 Ben Gurion

Ramat Gan, Israel
September 2, 2013

The Editor
"Haaretz" news paper
21 Zalman Shoken
Tel Aviv, Israel

Dear Editor,

I read your article and it was very interesting. There are a lot of schools that use tests to evaluate the students' academic achievements. For example, these tests exist in high schools and called Bagruiot. In my opinion, this is not the right way to evaluate students' academic achievements.

"Intellect shouldn't be graded, education is not about measurement, but about learning" that is what Yair Lapid said and it's true. Everybody is different.  Everybody is different in their qualities, and intelligence. Everyone has a talent or something he's good at in a different way than the other. These exams or any other tests do not give a chance to realize the individual potential. You can be excellent in one subject but weak in another. In addition, the tests make a competition between students, all they want is to get a better grade than others.Sometimes there is too much competition which students don't focus on their real goal, learning, they just want to "win"  the competition.

The tests might help students, however, they also can make a difficulty for them. As it is Written above, students  are not given a chance to realize their true potential in tests. Therefore, my suggestion is also to give them projects with grades that might help them get better grades than the Bagruiot or any other tests. I'm sure the projects will improve students' achievements.

Sincerely yours,

Marry Smith.

Better, Good work.
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