Some people believe that exams are an inappropriate way of measuring students’ performance and should be replaced by continuous assessment. Do you agree or disagree with this view?
People have different views with regard to the question of whether exams still play a fundamental part in testing learner’s abilities or regular judgement will replace them. From my point of view, I completely agree that it is of necessity for the repeated assessments to be applied.
On the one hand, exams exert a pernicious influence upon education. Firstly, some people are good at learning but they are not likely to suffer from harsh conditions during an exam. Therefore, they cannot complete the tests under too much time pressure or fully express their ideas in a comprehensive way. Also, taking tests is a snapshot of their knowledge rather a detailed understanding so the exam results are inconclusive as they are only based on their performances on that day.
On the other hand, the advantages of continuous assessments outweigh the benefits of examinations. They offer a better standard of learning. Because they need students to make a revision after one lesson and put it into practice at an earlier stage, leaners do not have to cram up for an exam. Furthermore, only by regular judgements can teachers highlight the problems of their students so they can find out solutions to these problems. Finally, as knowledge is used on a frequent basis, it will lead to an enhancement in levels of retention.
In conclusion, I believe that continuous judgement should be used as a tool of testing students instead of examinations.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; the question whether
...ple have different views with regard to the question of whether exams still play a fundamental part in ...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a comprehensive way" with adverb for "comprehensive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...e pressure or fully express their ideas in a comprehensive way. Also, taking tests is a snapshot of th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, so, still, therefore, in conclusion, with regard to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1210.0 1615.20841683 75% => OK
No of words: 239.0 315.596192385 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06276150628 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.20363070211 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99713628835 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.627615062762 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 378.9 506.74238477 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.949664811 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.833333333 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9166666667 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.25 7.06120827912 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241629569612 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.073863658567 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562006302776 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145223207341 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397691794996 0.056905535591 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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