Pressure

I think there has always been too much pressure and importance placed on exams, when i was at school I was hopelessn at remembering things so needless to say I always just scraped through..now i look back I think most of the things that I was expected to study and pass exams for were no earthly use to me once I left school anyway..I personally think we should be told about many things at school but we should not have to study everything or have exams for everything, I think we should only have exams for a set amount things like maths and english and then maybe subjects we are really interested in so we can go further with them...just my opinion.