Finals

Should there really be a comprehensive test at the end of the semester of a class? As this would only serve to stress out a student and further them to just worry. Most of the things learned earlier on in the semester would have been forgotten as well since a test is specific as deals with certain issues as a math test or books recently read. The point would not be so much in the small details like names/places/dates or even a math equation but in the knowledge gained altogether. So thinking about it this way would make one rather take a problem solving test with real life situations. Given an example of a problem that can happen in the workplace a student can take a test and figure out the solution. This applies for all classes since the focus is education for the future. A finite math class serves to teach the students about dealing with money, probabilities, and percentages which helps immensely for a young worker trying to save for a car or place to live. Everything that has to do with a loan is needed for a finite class and a good test would put a problem out there that deals with a common real life situation. This problems solving method would best be applied as the philosophy in classes around any college campus since the whole point of attending college is to prepare for the future.