Midterms are coming up, and it's stressing all of us. There's really no point in making us study hard for something we end up forgetting over the break. Staying up all night for a week and calculating the minimum score to pass isn't really worth the effort. Students can just show that they understand the concepts by small quizzes and projects instead of a big, cumulative test at the end that decides their fate?

1. Real Life Experiences

Most of the information we learn at school isn't going to help us in the future. Do we really need to calculate the equation of the parabola formed by the Gateway Arch in St. Louis or the equilibrium concentration of Sodium in an equilibrium expression? Even if we plan to have jobs related to complex problem solving, the other portion of our curriculum doesn't relate to what we plan to be in the future.

2. Reminders

Midterms and finals are test, except longer and more stressful. Simply, good students will get good scores, and bad students will not. For those who don't do well on tests, finals are constant reminders of their stupidity. These extraneous tests only provide students with unwanted stress and loss of sleep.

3. Personal Health

Who cares if you ace the finals if you end up getting seriously sick and disabled? Grades are just your hope for a good job. If you are unable to work, then that final wasn't worth the risk. Staying in your room and refusing to come out all day for a week isn't going to help your self motivation. You shouldn't come to finals with your brain messed up, hair disheveled, drool on your face, and clothes smelling like garbage,

4. Stress On Teachers

What seemed like a decent teacher from the beginning of the school year up to now turns out to be an angry soulless monsters. They give out reasonable assignments and quizzes and then during finals week they make you memorize six months of information in a few days and your head explodes.

5. Complaining Students

Once the test week starts, students are always updating their Instagram and Facebook, posting pictures of their worksheets and complaining that they'll be up all night. We all know that everyone is studying for finals and everyone is stressed, so stop complaining about it.

6. Percentage Worth

Finals make up a huge chunk of your grade. Even when you've spent countless hours on homework, tests and quizzes, if you fail the final, your grade will drop. There is no point in stressing students out over a big test when they have already shown significant effort in all the rest of the classwork. Clearly, students would do worse on a test with concepts they have long forgotten, so if there are teachers who believe that the final will boost grades, they're wrong.