Scrap the CCTs

I quivered in my squeaky white shoes, inching forward to wards the desk of doom. With a shaking hand, I grasped my fate, written on a sheet of paper. I took one glance and wilted inside. It was the “F” word…

Have you ever felt that your intellectual standards are measured in correctly by CCTs? Do you feel that CCTs are completely, undoubtedly accurate? CCTs are currently an integral part of school life, a part that almost everyone dreads, and a part that I hope can be removed. In a CCT, if you make a mistake, if you slip up just that once, the marks will remain forever unchanged.
During a CCT, a student will feel a certain amount of stress from their parents, teachers and themselves. Some students may also resort to cheating and copying. These factors cause pupils to be unable to perform up to their full potential, and they are thus unable to achieve the marks they really deserve. By scrapping the CCTs, it allows the teachers to monitor the students throughout the year and grade them based on an annual overview of their character and daily work, ensuring that accidents or luck to not majorly influence their grading.

Many bright students are being wrongly streamed into schools or polytechnic s where they are doomed to remain forever undiscovered, unpolished diamonds buried under the rubble of inaccurate judgment, forever unable to achieve their dreams and aspirations. If Beethoven’s future education had been based on a test, a CCT, the chances of him achieving such musical prestige and ingenuity would be near zilch.

Who are we to decide the method in which we judge someone’s intelligence? Who are we to warp others’ futures? By streaming students based on their performance in CCTs and tests, we are restricting creative expression and snuffing out many bright young sparks of mankind’s future.
Some of you might be asking “But without CCTs, how will the students feel the pressure and need to study?”

Well, as of this moment, many students are already no longer caring about their CCTs, due to the fact that they cannot be restricted by that slim window of accuracy and expression. They feel no need to study as they think it is useless and they will fail at it even if they try. Besides, if we need an examination in order to make students study, than CCTs lose their genuine (but ineffective) purpose, which is to determine a students intellectual competence.

Therefore the CCTS have lost their purpose, and they restrict creativity and expression, one of the most defining qualities of mankind. Scrap them, and let the next Beethoven, the future Einstein have a chance to be who they really are, a chance to achieve their dreams.