Exams Time! How to make the best use of it!

After all the fun and dance on republic day, there come the EXAMS. Yup students have their 4th Unit test from next monday. So final touches to syllabus and notes in Workbooks and notebooks is going on!
Best thing about exams is revision and focused approach on getting all the kids to 100% level. As lots of formative exams gives you time to work on the students who need to catchup with the rest of students. So you can revise a topic for few minutes and then give an assessment. While other students are doing that, you can focus heavily on a small group of students. Also the urgency and intensity in the classroom during exam time helps the cause. Students are more vigilant and attentive as One thing every student knows that good marks in exams have great results in school and at home too :) incentive system!

For me exam time is helpful for sure.Practically it gives you lots of time to plan and arrange new activities as you are not busy in teaching during these days. I mean the work load is less.
Also it gives you a quantitative measurement of student's learning which is also a very important factor. It also helps students who were absent while you finished with few topics. The complete revision and teaching the same thing in different way helps the students in getting a deeper understanding of the topic. Also you can provide lots of extension to higher order students as they know the usual stuff already.

Overall the intensity,environment and urgency in class during exams can be cashed in many different ways!!
Trust me,When a student gets good marks because he studied hard and put that extra effort, the beaming smile of happiness on his face cannot be discounted with anything. I know marks are not very important but for that little kid its an achievement, success of his hard work.I seriously feel relating hard work to success, The basic idea of developing I CAN, I want in a student should be the primary goal of every teacher. Once the kid is invested in studies,he or she behaves likes a clay which can be then molded into a learning and growing young mind.