In education system, assessment through written formal examinations is valid or not. OR Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?

One of the most conspicuous trends of today’s worlds is a colossal upsurge in assessing students purely based on written examination. There is a widespread worry that this will lead to a plethora of problems in student’s life. In my opinion, this apprehension is warranted and merits serious consideration.

There are a myriad of arguments in favor of my stance. The most preponderant one is that these stereotyped exams do not require in-depth knowledge. Not only can students, be it mediocre or prodigy, excel in these traditional exams by memorizing the subjects, but they also fail to instill knowledge required at this stage of their life, thus failing to broaden their horizons. Needless to say, all these demerits have a far-reaching impact on the academic performance of students.

Another pivotal aspect of this argument is that questions in these exams are often repeated or similar set of questions are readily available in the internet, thanks to the ubiquity of technology and so many students can access and memorize the prepared scripts and achieve good marks. Besides, the ability of the students in written examination is also hindered, from discovering new limits to testing them practically. Hence, it is apparent why many are not in favor of conventional exams.

In view of the arguments outlined above, one can conclude that the drawbacks of a formal written exam in gauging student’s ability are too dire to ignore.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, hence, if, so, still, thus, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 7.0 186% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 1.00243902439 399% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 5.60731707317 357% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 33.7804878049 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.97073170732 126% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1229.0 965.302439024 127% => OK
No of words: 235.0 196.424390244 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22978723404 4.92477711251 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 3.73543355544 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04099052267 2.65546596893 115% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 106.607317073 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608510638298 0.547539520022 111% => OK
syllable_count: 396.0 283.868780488 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.45097560976 117% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.2726044225 43.030603864 156% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.727272727 112.824112599 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3636363636 22.9334400587 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54545454545 5.23603664747 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 1.13902439024 527% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.114624416445 0.215688989381 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363937638565 0.103423049105 35% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444412946921 0.0843802449381 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0667476784512 0.15604864568 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0224308058801 0.0819641961636 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.2329268293 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 61.2550243902 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.3012195122 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 11.4140731707 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.19 8.06136585366 126% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 40.7170731707 201% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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