There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than through continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment?
Nowadays, it is observed that examination system has become a more recognized tool for assessment of knowledge and skills. While, there are many advantages of taking an exam we should also consider the drawbacks of this system. In this essay, I will discuss both advantages and disadvantages of examination system providing relevant examples wherever necessary.
One of the advantages of giving an exam is, that it is a one- time complete evaluation of any subject. The reason for this is, that it makes a student more focused and serious about performance. This system also assess’ the power of retention and application of vast knowledge in one attempt. For example, when exams are conducted at a fixed time intervals, examinees get an opportunity to prepare and understand the subjects well. In contrast, there is tremendous increase in mental and physical stress, thus leading to anxiety and depression. As a result, students may underperform in the exams.
On the other hand, if continual assessment techniques are used they keep the students in contact with subjects on regular basis. This is because, only a small portion of topics are assessed daily or weekly by teachers. It also involves a continuous interaction between teachers and students thus helping them to work on their weak aspects. This in turn leads to an ongoing process of gaining knowledge and applying it to life. For instance, with continuous assessment format teacher can judge a students level of concentration and dedication class. This may also help in improving students neuro-cognitive functions. However, term examination system gives a student an opportunity to show off their knowledge and excel in it. As a consequence, we see more motivated and carrier oriented students.
To sum up, while continual assessment system is still followed in many institutions, the examination system has newly gained more acceptance due to it’s advantages that have outweighed it’s disadvantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, still, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in contrast, as a result, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1673.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 312.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36217948718 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08307178111 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 531.0 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.1920862983 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.9444444444 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3333333333 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5 7.06120827912 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21055427875 0.244688304435 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0641398581953 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0341142889763 0.0667982634062 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126663396418 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0274542229583 0.056905535591 48% => 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: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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