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This week we are all getting ready for our midterm exams. We cram for back to back days chock full of studying, reviewing, and testing. It is almost a rude awakening when we just had a two week long break and we come back to be greeted by a tornado of work. The thing that doesn’t make sense to me is the fact that we take our exams after break instead of before. It’s like setting you up to fail. You are given a whole bunch of information before break, and then you are given two weeks to forget it all. No one in their right mind is going to buckle down and study on their break. Especially when the break is centered the around two elaborate and popular holidays: Christmas and New Years.
“I think we should have [exams] before break because I forget a lot of stuff over break,” junior Hayden Rutherford said.
When you get back from break you’re ready for a fresh start and that was lost this past year with the year long classes. You’re also ready for new information and to learn something different. Instead we are asked to drudge up old information that has been down and out since the week before break, as well as have the grade be a huge a part of your overall grade. It might not be a part of your 9 weeks grade, but instead the administration makes the exam their own grade. Your midterm grade is 1/14 of your end of the year grade.
“I think it would make more sense to have exams before break because it’s a good breaking point in the middle of the year. It’s such a stressful two weeks when you get back, and it would be more rewarding before break,” junior Caitlin Kelley said.
Not all students mind the exams being after break, rather they dislike the exam schedule.
“Having exams after break isn’t the problem. We have two exams per day this week. We should have exams one day a week so it’s less of an overload,” junior Sam St. Ours said.
Whether you’re frustrated with the the timing or the scheduling of exams, students agree there is a problem with the way they are as of now.
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