The fear of examination makes students work hard and go through all the course of studies as they do not know which question will be set in the examination. But examinations, as they are in practice today, are not without defects. They make students fearful. The fear of examination has given birth to the phrase "Examination Fever".
This fever and examination are closely related to each other. When examination approaches, students have an attack of this fever. Its germs are not yet found. It is thought by the intellectuals that this fever is a kind of allergy which, during exams, is stimulated and hence all the students fall victim to it.
The scientists and doctors have diagnosed all types of fevers except the periodically occurring, "Examination fever". This type is not yet fully understood, but careful observations have shown some of its features. It is a seasonal disease and attacks one to three times a year only before and during the examination.
It spreads like an epidemic and students fall prey to it. Even the scholarly types of students do not remain unaffected. Every boy or girl, without exception of age, has fear of exams. Some scientists and doctors after thorough investigations have found some of the signs and symptoms.
The patient (student attacked by it ) becomes very weak and pale, and is easily irritated and remains in state of confusion and tension. He has some germs of disease "bookworm" in which the victims only reads books all day and night and still remains unsatisfied, because he thinks that he is not well prepared.
As the examination comes nearer and nearer the following signs and symptoms can be observed clearly in him. Examination fever increases few degrees higher and increases the agony more when one thinks about unfair means in the examination.
The darkest side of the picture is that no medicine is effective for this disease. It is believed that the germs of examination fever are very difficult to detect, and discovery of such medicines to get rid of it is still a fantasy. Recovery is possible only when the victim is given long doses of recreational tonic.
The patient is advised to rest and to be regular in taking the tonic recommended for early recovery. Psychological tests should be introduced, and questions set in the examination should test the power of comprehension, grasp, skills and intelligence of students, not his cramming ability and amount of knowledge he has temporarily stuffed in his brain. This is the only prescription that would abolish the term "Examination fever" from the students dictionary.
