Recently, the teacher gave us an essay topic: "Is the exam open or closed?" . As soon as the topic came out, the whole class suddenly exploded. Some say that opening books is beneficial, some say that closing books is beneficial, some say that each has its own advantages and disadvantages, some say that it doesn't matter, and some say that it is best not to take the exam. After careful observation, I found that most students said it was good to open books, and many said it was good to close them. There are fewer people who say that each has its own advantages and disadvantages than those who say that it is good to close the book. Only a few people say that it doesn't matter, and it is best not to take the exam.
Personally, I think opening a book and closing it have their own advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes it's good to open the book, and sometimes it's good to close it. The key depends on what the exam is and what its purpose is.
For us primary school students, what we have learned now is superficial, mostly basic knowledge, and there are many things to remember. For example, pinyin in Chinese class, new words, words, idioms, ancient poems, good words and sentences, texts to be memorized, words in English class, calculation formulas in math class, unit conversion, etc. All things need to be remembered. For these knowledge, there are ready-made answers in books, and it is best to adopt the method of closed-book examination. For natural, social, ideological and moral courses, students need to understand a lot, and most of them don't need to memorize. It is best to take the form of open-book examination. For reading comprehension and composition in Chinese class, it is mainly to give full play to students' ability of independent understanding and flexible use of knowledge, and it is best to use open-book examination.
The advantage of an open-book exam is that you can look through books to find information. Students have no psychological pressure. Because there is no ready-made answer, there will be no cheating. Everyone can give full play to their imagination and get the most real results. But if you don't use the open-book exam well, you shouldn't use the open-book exam, which will encourage some students not to study hard at ordinary times and plagiarize a lot from the open-book exam. On the surface, they did well in the exam, but in fact, many things were not really mastered, and in the end they could only harm themselves.
The advantage of closed-book examination is that it can urge students to study hard at ordinary times. They must memorize what they should remember and can't be lazy. They should be able to study without books and consciously form the good habit of studying hard. In closed-book exams, the results are often more realistic. But the disadvantage is that students are under great psychological pressure. Some students who don't study well always want to cheat. Some students just cram for the exam and get high marks. They don't know much and have no fundamental knowledge.
In a word, I think each book has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the key is to use it well. For some things that students need to remember, it is better to use closed-book exams. For students who need to focus on understanding and flexible use, it is best to use open-book exams. Only in this way, students can really master the knowledge without increasing the burden, so that the knowledge they have learned can be deepened and applied flexibly, and the purpose of the examination can be truly achieved.