Formal exams are used to assess students at the end of each semester in many countries. Why are these exams used by schools and universities?What other types of assessment are possible.

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Formal exams are used to assess students at the end of each semester in many countries.

Why are these exams used by schools and universities?

What other types of assessment are possible.

In many countries, universities conduct formal exams at the end of every semester. These examinations can help the teachers to assess their students, on what they are taught and studied. Even written examinations are more prevalent, there are many other ways to measure students ability such as written assignments and research works are two of them.

The formal examination is important for the universities and schools to determine the knowledge gained by the students and teachers to evaluate themselves. These methods can help teachers to understand the areas to improve and to determine the progress of their students. For instance, teachers and students need to evaluate individually to understand their negativity, which helps them to focus in the future by introducing advanced learning and teaching methods. Because of these reasons examination methods always take a predominant role in schools and universities today.

Formal examinations are not the only way to measure students acquired knowledge, there are myriad of ways to measure such as written assignments and research works. Individual assignments and research help them to apply their knowledge and ability gained from the education by practical application. While doing research papers during my university studies, enabled me to apply various theoretical aspects to the practical application. These evaluations done through assignments and research helped me to assess myself and teachers, to test my level of understanding of the subjects.

In conclusion, formal examinations are conducted by the universities and schools in every semester. Although it may help teachers to assess their students progress, it can also help them to understand the areas where they need to improve. Despite formal examinations there are many other ways to monitor students knowledge.

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Average: 6.1 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, may, so, while, as to, for instance, in conclusion, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1574.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64157706093 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02563313672 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 176.041082164 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47311827957 0.561755894193 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.0 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.4396895919 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.428571429 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9285714286 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64285714286 7.06120827912 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212469982671 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0903391754991 0.084324248473 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0791387252691 0.0667982634062 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154909766857 0.151304729494 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.082174509605 0.056905535591 144% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.43 12.4159519038 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 78.4519038076 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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