LIFE VS SCHOOL? BUT YOU CAN DO BOTH WELL!

If you are like many others, you don't believe that exams are the true test of knowledge. I do not disagree. But you will not be able to name a better medium for testing what students have learnt. Exams may have several disadvantages, but then there is rarely any perfect medium or process for testing how well a person has learnt.

From observation I have realised that most of those who complain about the imperfections of exams are those who fail them. I see that happen over and over again. They complain because they cannot surmount it. You need to learn how to pass exams even though it is not the true test of knowledge. Decide to do well in it since it is something you cannot avoid.

There is this opinion that is increasingly getting popular; that exams do not determine your fate in life. My perspective is why do badly in exams, in school, when you can do absolutely better. What is stopping you? What is the obstacle preventing you from achieving academic excellence? 
Many people like to support their claim my saying that many successful people are dropouts. They begin to mention names like Bill Gates to back up their point. My response to them is "but many more successful people are graduates." And even those who dropout (for diverse reasons, not just limited to poor performance) prefer to employ those who have attained the zenith in educational qualifications. 

Before you set up a movement for the scrapping of all forms of exams, pass those exams first. You are more likely to be listened to when you point out the flaws in a process where you succeeded, instead of one where you failed woefully in. But some will still insist that school doesn't matter; that education is a scam. They say what really matters is succeeding in life. I totally agree that life is more complex than school. It is, really. If you can succeed in life, however that is defined, then you have no excuse for failing in school. You can be both successful in school and life. Many have done it before you, many will do it after you; you have no excuse not to do it too.

Life doesn't give you a scheme of work before it throws test at you. It has no predetermined syllabus, no room to revise before its trials; all its test are improptu, no timetable whatsoever. Inspite of all those shortcomings, if you can go ahead to succeed in life, then passing exams should not give you a tough time. In school you have scheme of works, timetables, and most of the tests and exams aren't  impromptu. So please don't give any excuse again.