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The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A–H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Fashions in education seem to change with each generation. Recently, people have talked a lot about the testing of pupils in schools. For example, they talk about how often pupils should be tested. There are also questions about what subjects to test, and how teachers should use the information they get from the tests.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Nowadays, the results are very important for deciding whether pupils are in the right class. They can also tell teachers whether pupils are particularly talented, and may need a higher-level class to challenge them. On the other hand, test results can also tell teachers whether pupils may need some extra help with their work.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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This all works very well for areas of the curriculum that are easy and straightforward to test, like English and Maths. But what about other skills that aren’t so easy? They may still be very important in pupils’ lives.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Things like being creative are certainly essential for certain jobs. Being creative is also important for your personal well-being. Lots of people do things like story-writing or painting in their spare time. This helps people to relax and feel better. And that’s a very important thing in our lives.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Of course, there are some schools that don’t test their pupils until they are almost ready to leave. At the end of school, pupils have to compete with other students. They will all be applying to colleges and universities. They have to be able to prove what they can do.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Finally, though, we should consider parents that take their children out of the school system altogether. This is partly because they don’t agree with the testing. They feel that teachers can make good enough judgements about the children in their classes. without testing them But other parents think that tests make pupils study harder. So perhaps there just are no right answers in the question of whether to test pupils or not. 

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Fashions in education change with each generation. In the UK, for example, our parents’ generation may not have had as many tests as pupils nowadays. They certainly did school leaving tests, like pupils do now. But they didn’t have to succeed in tests all the way through school. 

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Nowadays, test results are used for deciding whether pupils are in the right class. Tests can show that some students are very gifted, for example. So classes might be too easy for them. But if a pupil is finding everything hard, a test tells the teacher there’s a problem.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Testing works well in areas that are easy to test, such as Science or Geography. But other skills, like being creative or being sociable are also very important. However, they’re not quite so easy to measure.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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Being creative is necessary if you want to have a job in the arts, for example. You need to think ‘outside the box’. That means finding unusual solutions to difficult situations. So it’s essential that pupils also learn these skills, and not just things they can do well at in tests.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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What’s more, not all schools believe in testing.

They feel that until pupils leave school, it’s more important that they should just love learning. And they feel the best way is to take away the stress of tests. So pupils only take tests when they have to compete with other pupils and apply for college and university.

The article is about testing in schools. Match the correct heading A-H with the paragraph from the article. There are two extra headings.

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And some parents actually agree with the schools that don’t test. In fact, some even take their children out of school to teach them at home. They feel this is better. So who is right? Maybe there isn’t only one correct solution, and it all depends on the individual pupils.