This morning, when I entered Class 314, I sensed a different atmosphere. The students seemed happier than they used to be in a typical first class on Friday. Usually on Friday morning they had a quiz from 7:30 to 8:10, so when I entered the classroom at 8:10, everyone would be quiet, appearing to have been weighed down with unbearable pressure. But today, many of them were chatting like delighted chirping birds. I asked them why they seemed so happy. They answered that they didn't have a quiz. What a heavy burden tests seem to students!
I often told my students to take the test as a game, which they play to score. I also told them that without tests they would never know if they had really learned or remembered something. However, tests still seem formidable to many of them.
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