Many people believe that formal “pen and paper” examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement.
Discuss this view and give your own opinion.
Nowadays, technological advancements have changed lifestyles. They have made our lives much easier and hassle free. It has also made an impact on different methods of studying. However, regardless of technological advancements, different organisations still conduct examinations based on pen and paper format. There is a mix opinion, regarding the efficiency and conclusion of results based on this format. Few people believe, this system has loop holes, while on the other hand few believe, it to only be the way out.
Traditional method of examination has been highly accepted around the globe. It is used to analyse different students. However, assessing examinations and achievements are completely based on analysis of teachers or examiners. Moreover, conventional format has been used for ages to measure the performance. On numerous occasions, children who have good writing skills tend to achieve more and this is one of it's limitation. As there are children, who are highly learned but struggle to write on numerous topics. Hence, this highlights the problems with pen and paper format.
A debate has been conducted these days, regarding format of exams. Analysts have been trying to find other options and formats, few have been successful. As it is believed, there is need of different formats for different professions. When it comes to analysing skills such as: writing thesis, reports, novels, etc. then written exams should be preferred. While on the other hand, professions such as: engineering, physicians, scientists and doctors should be analysed on practical examination. However, a mixture of examination formats could be used, but less weight-age should be given to written exams.
In conclusion, it is always important to use different methods to measure skills and conclude on basis of their results. We cannot only rely on pen and paper method, therefore using different tools of analysis is need of hour.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rent tools of analysis is need of hour.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, moreover, regarding, so, still, then, therefore, while, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1639.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40924092409 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96740600047 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567656765677 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 510.3 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.2975951904 64% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.6167693696 49.4020404114 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.5 106.682146367 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.7727272727 20.7667163134 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.81818181818 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 3.4128256513 352% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.110838273041 0.244688304435 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0331029899132 0.084324248473 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0399617544018 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0752505803687 0.151304729494 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0390972190175 0.056905535591 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.0946893788 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.82 50.2224549098 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.51 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.1190380762 71% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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