Thursday, September 26, 2013

Helen Keller called the examination time the "dreaded hour." Do you agree with her views?

Helen Keller found school examinations to be tiresome and overwhelming. Helen could not simply sit down, read an examination paper, and write the answers like most students. She instead had to have someone finger spell each question into her hand. She had to use a special typewriter to compose her answers. Then she had these answers read back to her using finger spelling. It was an exhausting and tedious affair. She considered school examinations to be the "chief bugbears of [her] college life."


Even though Helen studied diligently, she sometimes struggled to summon the information needed when the time came to answer the test questions. Despite her cramming, Helen sometimes found that the information she had learned would "take to themselves wings and fly away" when she needed it. This caused Helen to have trouble answering questions on the exam. Soon she realized that her test-taking time was up.

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