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Tests may be the most unpopular part of academic life.
考試可能是學(xué)習(xí)生活中最不受人歡迎的一部分。
Students hate them because they produce fear and anxiety about being evaluated,
學(xué)生們很討厭各種考試，因為他們會因被評估而產(chǎn)生恐懼和不安的心理，
and a focus on grades instead of learning for learning's sake.
并且將注意力從學(xué)習(xí)本身轉(zhuǎn)移到分?jǐn)?shù)上面去。
But tests are also valuable.
但是考試又是很有價值的。
A well-constructed test identifies what you know and what you still need to learn.
一場精心布置的考試會讓你分辨出什么是你掌握的，什么是你需要繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)的。
Tests help you see how your performance compares to that of others.
考試也會幫助你看到和其他人相比，你的表現(xiàn)是怎樣的。
And knowing that you'll be tested on a body of material is certainly likely to motivate you to learn the material more thoroughly.
認(rèn)識到這些之后，那些你將會被考到的大量的知識，也當(dāng)然會激勵你更徹底地去學(xué)習(xí)。
However, there's another reason you might dislike tests.
然而，還有另外一個原因你會不喜歡考試。
You may assume that tests have the power to define your worth as a person.
你可能會錯誤地認(rèn)為考試有權(quán)定義你自身的價值。
If you do badly on a test, you may be tempted to believe that
如果你考試發(fā)揮得很差，你也許會被誘使自己相信
you've received some fundamental information about yourself from the professor
你已經(jīng)從老師的一些話中得到了一些關(guān)于你自己的基本信息--
information that says you are a failure in some significant way.
那些認(rèn)為你是個失敗者的信息，
This is a dangerous and wrong-headed assumption.
這是一個很危險又很錯誤的假想。
If you do badly on a test, it doesn't mean you are a bad person or stupid.
如果你考試發(fā)揮的不好，這并不意味著你就是個差勁或者愚蠢的人。
Or that you'll never do better again and that your life is ruined.
否則，你將不會振作起來，你的生活也就被摧毀掉了。
If you don't do well on a test, you're the same person you were before you took the test.
即使你在考試中沒有做好，你也還是那個參加考試之前的那個你。
No better, no worse. You just did badly on a test. That's it!
不會更好，當(dāng)然也不會更差。你只是在考試中沒發(fā)揮好而已，僅此而已！
In short, tests are not a measure of your value as an individual.
總之，考試不是衡量你自身價值的唯一評判。
They're a measure only of how well and how much you studied.
他們只能衡量出你學(xué)習(xí)的情況和多少。
Tests are tools. They are indirect and imperfect measures of what we know.
考試只是一種工具。他們也是間接的、不完善的評判標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
