Exams: How They Are a Stumbling Block in English Language Teaching in Bisha

Exams: How they are a Stumbling Block in English Language Teaching in Bisha Come the seasons of mid-terms and end-of-terms, we can see an increased volume of frustration in the faces of all the students. Thus right from the best of the students to the bunch of careless and indifferent-to-studies students, all of them find themselves in a state of utter chaos and confusion. Thus such standardized tests in ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING, especially in Bisha, drag their psychic situation from worse to worst, more than often. As a result, they are left with only two options; either to take the tests half-heartedly to fail, or to try to pass the tests using rather dishonest means such as cheating or pressurizing teachers. The onus completely goes to the unrealistic standardized test methods which prove that marks and grades are only possible methods to judge a student’s competency. A sheer disgrace to ELT. Not only this, even the teachers and instructors get perplexed by this sort of testing system. They always fear to be held responsible for the lopsided and sloppy performance by the students on the grade sheets. They carry an unnecessary overload of being judged incompetent based on the marks-based results of students. Thus they wear a fear psychosis of facing the heat of administration, all the time. It means the calendar-based tests in any English Language Teaching program prove a stumbling block not only to the students but to the teachers too. However, this paper intends to discuss the negativities of exams on the students only!!! How to Reduce the Dependence on Standardized Test Methods in Evaluation in Bisha:- Keeping the tests an open secret:
Tests are mostly kept an exclusive secret by the teachers. This secrecy turns out to be fatal and detrimental to the student’s psyche. Thus rather than focusing on home-based study, they lose much time on thinking about the ‘subject matter’ of the test. So the students must be kept abreast of