The current trend in education is to move away from traditional exams and instead have continuous assessment over the school year.
Education and student grading is important, since it provides on the understanding level of students. It is also true that there is a paradigm shift in the way students were scrutinised earlier and now by means of weekly examinations. In my essay below, I will discuss both these trends and provide my views in favour of it as below.
Firstly, traditional examinations used to focus on months of study and then assessments couple of times in the whole year. It was also seen that many students used to do focussed study only during the examination months and took it easy during the actual study time. In order to cover a lot of syllabus during a small time, they used to techniques like cramming without going for full understanding of topics. For example, if a student is supposed to cover 10 subjects in a month and appear for an paper, he will try to look for some makeshift arrangements. In case, these young lads would have been studying all along, they would have found themselves in a much better position.
Secondly, the weekly tests are less burdening since students need to cover only a week's study done in their school and it also promotes regular study. Also, this plan definitely motivates them regularly to learn. For instance, to do well every time in these weekly examinations, students will be more inclined to regularly attend classes, and make peer study networks for focussed study. Another added advantage of weekly grading is that they will get consistent feedback about their knowledge and can pull up their socks very soon taking care of their final grades. If, they were not regularly apprised of their understanding of subjects every week, it might have been difficult for them to improve upon.
In conclusion, we looked at some shortcomings of traditional exams like less focussed study throughout the year and cramming to cover subjects and also few benefits of weekly examinations such as regular study and constant feedback. Hence, I can strongly assert that weekly examinations is the way forward for ensuring that students are putting their valuable time to a better use.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 24.0651302605 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => 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: 1758.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 356.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93820224719 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6799048328 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.556179775281 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 549.0 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 5.43587174349 221% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8386046254 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.2 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7333333333 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 7.06120827912 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0689683561951 0.244688304435 28% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0266174033606 0.084324248473 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0355265993841 0.0667982634062 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0450740337833 0.151304729494 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0155919673614 0.056905535591 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: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 11.2359550562 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 9
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