Test and examinations are a central feature of school systems in many countries Do you think the educational benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages Give reasons and examples

In many nations, a key aspect of school education is paper-based exams. The principal academic advantage of examinations is that they reinforce what children have learned so far, and this advantage outweighs the disadvantage of the stress of being tested.

To be successful at exams, students should be up to date with the curriculum. In other words, were they to score high on tests, they need to study on a daily basis. For example, in some countries, schools conduct weekly and monthly assessments in addition to the semester and year-end exams; therefore, kids have a great opportunity to refresh whatever they learned in the classroom. This is supported by a recent study conducted at Oxford University, in which they claimed that the knowledge on subject matters is 85% higher in frequent test-takers than those who are not tested frequently. Therefore, assessing children is a great way to achieve higher academic performances.

However, some may think that a lot of psychological stress may involve the frequent checking of student’s knowledge. Of course, it may cause a little bit of mental pressure to obtain higher grades; nevertheless, were pupils to work on their syllabus daily, they can eliminate the stress. Not only do they release their stress, but they will also be able to become good performers. According to the annual newsletter of the National Education Ministry, students who study routinely have a 75% lesser chance to develop study-related stress than those who do not do so.

In conclusion, in most countries, having regular exams at school is a main characteristic of the education system. The main positive it brings is the higher academic knowledge and this does far outweigh the possible negative effect of the little bit of stress it might cause on students.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
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Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...igh the possible negative effect of the little bit of stress it might cause on students.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, for example, in addition, in conclusion, of course, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1510.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15358361775 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92294867041 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 176.041082164 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576791808874 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4185746835 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.153846154 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5384615385 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23076923077 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.123516612076 0.244688304435 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0431753975228 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415235125559 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0811239269291 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032331945076 0.056905535591 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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