Examination is an Evil Word

"Okay class, we will have our final exam on (date)."
"Now, get (size of paper)."
"Please answer the following..."


These are the usual sentences and phrases that startle us everytime the teacher mentions them. Why do we get scared?
Because we aren't sure of passing the exam the teacher is about to give.
I am one of those who get really tensed everytime the teacher says such words (though sometimes I get confident to do the exam for I want to exercise my learnings.)
But, how about the teacher giving the test? Do we know how s/he feels?
This afternoon, we went to one school here in Makati to give some examination (which we made by ourselves) for a third year high school class. This is for our Assessment and Evaluation course in which we are required to test the validity of our exam (and all that blah-blah-blah's).
Before giving it, we (me and my groupmates) have undergone all the hardships just to make our examination possible to answer.
And so, as we went in, the class (a pilot section) greeted us and we gave them the papers one by one (because we had technical problems with our test papers.)
And right there and then, I figured: “Giving students an examination seems like giving them needles to chew.” I’m sort of exaggerating actually, but I could see their reactions—and add the fact that we were handing every page one by one to them (there were actually seven pages.) Imagine how many needles they chewed!!!!!
And as I stood in front, I could see who is cheating and who is already done (but too shy to give the paper to us—for, maybe, he thinks we are going to read his answers.) And when I turned to my groupmates, they were also looking at the students.
We were like gargoyles looking down upon humans as they suffer.
Now, I could feel how “evil” the students would think of you if you give them test papers to ink on. Even the way they look up on us, they seem to glare at us.
What could they have had in mind?
“This exam is crashing my brain, you bullshits.”
“Curse you for giving such difficult questions.”
“What the hell are you asking me about??? I did not read such thing all my life!!!”

There could be thousands of thoughts against us... Well, there were some who were understanding though. And believe me, it pained me to watch them do the exam myself.
But the realization here actually is that no matter what, we have to do this. There are reasons why a teacher has to give exams. And this is not to annoy students, because teachers also WORK SO HARD with exams…. You just don’t know how much we do to finish the exam. It’s a part of what the teacher need to do: to assess the student’s knowledge and skills about what they have already learn.
So, I’m very thankful for their cooperation; though a lot of them failed or almost failed which would also lead, probably, to the invalidity of our exam!!!