What's the history behind Exams ?

Arts & Culture History
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What’s the history behind the standard tests /exams we ALL have to go through ?
How did it become so popular?

I want to know who got this idea ?

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Socrates may be. I think he has some link with the modern way of teaching.

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In which era did the exam concept start?

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ek raat jiske bhii dimaaGh meN koii keeRaa rengaa [crawl] hogaa, yaqeenan usii kii iijaad hogii…Khush? :smiley:

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Serious sawal hai :snooty:

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Exams concept started when Shaitan deceived Adam and Hawwa (AS)

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So it existed from the beginning :frowning:

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LP while I’m still in search of Socrates and hsi role for modern education system, here what I found about the Examination system:

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jawaab bhii to serious hii hai :stuck_out_tongue:

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The answer is not simple as the question. Its all started from ‘Babylon’.

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So it was the Chinese who are the culprits :hmmm:

:emmy:

Elaborate please.

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I think its Greek behind all this hassle, but lets see what LKK has to say about Babylon, which is no doubt one of the oldest civilisation in the world. Probably Mesopotamia (Babylon) were the first people, who learned how to write. Chinese were the inventors of paper.

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Old Greek i think was knows as ‘Kabbalah or Cabbalah’. Its too long to share hence I haven’t finished reading it. :slight_smile:

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Watch this video clip.