The graph shows the number of people by thousands and date of entry to the UK from the West Indies, India and Pakistan. The graph shows this immigration to the UK in the period from 1940 to 1980.
Firstly, there was a slight increase from West Indies and India and Pakistan for the first 10 years. Then there was a sharp increase for the West Indies from 5 thousand to about 17 thousand people and it happened in the period between1953 to 1957. In the same period the Indian and Pakistani peoples numbers only slightly increased. The period between1962 to 1967 showed a sharp increase for people from West Indies and people from India and Pakistani. After 1967 there was a sharp decrease for West Indies and Indians and Pakistanis, but the number in this period for people from India and Pakistan was higher than the number of West Indies immigrants.
Overall, the number of people fluctuated and the number of immigrants from West Indies was less in total than the number of immigrants from India and Pakistan especially in the last period.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Examinations/ good or bad
Every college or school today depends on examinations to measure the performance of the students. There are two views, one supports banning exams and the other thinks exams are good.
First, the people who like to support banning exams have reasons and see this topic from different angles. However, examinations make students nervous and stressed. Otherwise, they think using homework is better than the examinations. Also, it’s an unfair way to assess knowledge. I want to argue that the examinations are not a good way for a complete evaluation of students skills and abilities. Examinations can’t measure all the knowledge except the questions on the exam sheets. So they focus just on important points.
On the other hand, exams are good incentive for students to study and review course materials. It helps them to work hard and study well. They are a fair assessment because the same test is used for all students and that shows the fair view for examinations. Also, exams help students to know what they understand and don’t understand of the course content, so they can go back and make sure they understand the material.
Overall, in my opinion both views have good points and I think I will take good points from the both views. The main point is we should make a mix between these good points and make sure we assign marks in a fair way.
First, the people who like to support banning exams have reasons and see this topic from different angles. However, examinations make students nervous and stressed. Otherwise, they think using homework is better than the examinations. Also, it’s an unfair way to assess knowledge. I want to argue that the examinations are not a good way for a complete evaluation of students skills and abilities. Examinations can’t measure all the knowledge except the questions on the exam sheets. So they focus just on important points.
On the other hand, exams are good incentive for students to study and review course materials. It helps them to work hard and study well. They are a fair assessment because the same test is used for all students and that shows the fair view for examinations. Also, exams help students to know what they understand and don’t understand of the course content, so they can go back and make sure they understand the material.
Overall, in my opinion both views have good points and I think I will take good points from the both views. The main point is we should make a mix between these good points and make sure we assign marks in a fair way.
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