What COVID-19 Is Teaching Us About School Examinations

And when the COVID-19 incident challenged the world, it did not force us into a room to think of a solution like an examination hall with the solution in our books right outside the hall. It helped connect the world together towards a common goal, a single solution towards fighting the common enemy. Hopefully, we win this fight and live to fight another day.

This should be the same goal examinations in schools should prepare us for. To be able at every time to face challenges and proffer solutions towards solving them. Not only about blind memorization of contents and determining who is best at remembering what is closed in some books right behind us.

I am currently preparing for an examination and thanks to COVID-19, we would be taking this examination open book. For the first time, I am not studying just to remember the contents of my book. The contents would be there for me to use and what would be more important is what I can achieve with all the contents that I have. And now, the examination does not seem like what it used to be, the fight to see who remembers the most, but more about who is able to solve the problem the best.

You see, we all think that COVID-19 is going to reshape our healthcare system and so much more, yes it would, but one other area that really needs to look inwards is our…