This essay deals with the factors that negatively affect the students’ ability to take tests and achieve a high score, which are unrelated to their previous knowledge on the subject matter at hand. They include lack of proper revision, stress, lack of time and misreading the question. All of these issues call for a retake of the test as a fair course of action, exactly because the low score was not the result of the lack of knowledge on the part of the student, but rather of factors not completely under their control.
Most students regard themselves as proficient when it comes ...
