I've always been good enough at them (although I've been out of school for a few years now so who knows when I go back ) but I agree that they're flawed. I think the best ones are the ones that give you open-ended questions and make you reflect on things and put them in your own words. It's good for seeing who learned and understood what.

Because I've known some people who knew and understood all of the material but had trouble on tests, and I knew some people who literally just had good memory for writing answers word for word as they read them, but none of it really registered and they didn't understand it. So in that case it shows that person A knew less than person B, when really the opposite was true.

I in general think that the school system is a bit flawed because people have different strengths and weaknesses and measuring them all by the same standard is just setting a lot of people up for failure. In an ideal world I would like schools where they can teach in different ways to help the students actually learn. Like some students are more hands on and won't learn well reading text from a book, but if you teach them in a more hands on environment, they'll understand it and broaden their knowledge, which is kind of the point. But I'm just rambling at this point.

Basically while I personally have never had any trouble on tests or exams or projects or anything other than doing my homework on time, I think that they aren't the most accurate way to judge how much someone has learned. Projects, open-ended questions, discussions, I think those thinks work better