By Taylor Schutt Pop quizzes are not helpful at all. Honestly, they could potentially make a student’s day worse. If a student does poorly on the pop quiz, she usually feels inferior and worries that her grades will suffer. The only people who really believe that pop quizzes are helpful are those who are at home studying instead of taking part in after- school activities. No one really studies every single day; there is just not enough time in a day to accomplish that. Every student has a limit with what she can do, and after a long day of school, homework, a job and/or other activities, we can become extremely stressed out. So why would we want to come home and study until we fall asleep? Personally, I would want to just take a nap as soon as I stepped through the door. A student already has a lot to deal with during school, and we do not need additional pressures like pop quizzes thrust upon us. It all just gets to be too much sometimes already. Teachers that give pop quizzes are just waiting for their students to crack under pressure. Studies show that anxiety has been at an all- time high among high school students. Schools focus on numbers, not the student. When students bomb a quiz, they slowly lose their cool and grow to dislike the material, not want to study or even despise the class. More than anything, pop quizzes frustrate us students. These random benchmarks could be given on a day where you just feel like nothing’s going right. Having a bad day or even being distracted by preoccupying thoughts could definitely decrease your testing ability, as well as your memory of new material. A quiz is an easy A for people when they study and know what they are required to know. A quiz could also be an easy F for people who have no grasp on the concepts that they are learning and need a little more time studying to fully get it. On that note, ungraded quizzes could be an indicator for the teacher to go through the material again. If the students as a whole do poorly on the quiz, then the teacher should not grade it. Pop quizzes should not be given for a grade, but given for a test to see how comfortable you are with the material and whether or not you need more help with it. Even if pop quizzes are just for review and not for points, it doesn’t really make much of a major difference. Ask any student who has ever experienced a pop quiz. Any one would say either that it stressed her out or negatively impacted her overall grade more than anything else. So, should pop quizzes be handed out regularly (or irregularly, as the case may be)? No. Absolutely not. Photos Courtesy Of: flickr.com; pixabay.com
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