Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part, state specifically what your idea is.

In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your idea or describe your idea.

In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

On Today’s Education

One of the main problems with today’s education is that too much emphasis is placed on the test score. It has become the most important criterion for college enrollment. A student, however, creative and intelligent, will not be admitted into a college if his total scores are just one point less than required. It is also one of the crucial factors either in job assignment or in employment competitions.

The competition for high scores among students becomes intense. Students find themselves concentrating more on strategies to achieve high scores than on acquiring the knowledge. They will play truant of some subsidiary courses, skip over the substance which will not be tested on, even pump teachers for hints on upcoming exams. Teachers are apt to give their students high scores. As their job is judged mainly by the students’ performance in terms of scores, some teachers tend to set easy papers to test their students or narrow down the scope of the exam. Some teachers even leak “accidentally” the exam questions or lower their criterion of scoring. As a result, the test fails to achieve the desired results.

We must search for an immediate solution, because the competition for high scores becomes so intense that it actually defeats the academic goals of education.