Essay About Quizzes

How many times have you been overly stressed about a quiz or a test you had the next day? You’ve probably had anxiety at a quiz or a test that you know that you’re going to have, sometimes to the point where you stayed up late to study and wake up early to study even more. In some cases, it can start to have a negative impact on student’s health. It also may decrease participation in classes. Some teachers say it takes time from instructing and teaching. In short, students will benefit if the number of quizzes and tests are decreased. First of all, there has been a negative impact on students’ mental health because of the multitudes of tests and quizzes. There have been multiple accounts of students having panic attacks, crying themselves to sleep, vomiting from their stress, and headaches. Christina Simpson writes that“Articles in the press provide reports of individual students experiencing a variety of stress-related symptoms in connection to standardized testing, such as stomach aches, sleep problems, headaches, and anxiety attacks.”(6) Parents are having serious concern

Although that is true, students are constantly stressed days before the quizzes and tests and they are worried that they need to do well in order to have good grades and in correlation to having a good future.”. They present an example of a fear appeal: “If you fail GCSE maths, you will never be able to get a good job or go to college. You need to work hard in order to avoid failure” (p. 504). “Fear appeals have the potential to increase students’ anxiety about standardized testing (Putwain & Roberts as cited in Saeki, Pendergast, Segool, & von der Embse, 2015; Putwain & Symes, 2011).” When the thought of failing and never having a good life is constantly weighing at students they are consumed by their fears and while people think that’s a good motivator, it ruins students lives and well