There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessments?
To grade the level of understanding about the subject in students assessing through exams is becoming more popular among teachers rather than assessing continually throughout the year. This essay will explores merits and demerits of this approach.
Firstly, one of the main advantage of examining students through paper based exam is that it creates competition among students. Once the exam dates announced, the euphoria of competition develops among students and they are seeing in libraries. For instance, when I was in university, once the semester exams approached, we all started studying in library till late in the night. Secondly, it develops personality and confidence in people, especially oral examinations. The viva exam is the one where examiner verbally analyze the knowledge of students. This not only creates confidence but also develops the personality and make them ready for the practical life.
On the other hand, the main disadvantage of this is the development of a cramming habit. The students only memorize the answers without understanding them leading to achieving good grade but lacking in knowledge of that subject. Furthermore, exams effects badly on the health of students. In the environment of competition, they cannot able to handle the stress and anxiety resulting in addicting to medicines. This greatly effects there grades also.
In conclusion, although the exams creates confidence and develops confidence in people but also it deprives them from good health and promotes the habit of memorizing. So, institutes should devise a mechanism that not only assess the knowledge of students but also develop their personality.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1412.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 257.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49416342412 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92549563863 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 176.041082164 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.556420233463 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 443.7 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => 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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.6330888689 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.1333333333 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1333333333 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.46666666667 7.06120827912 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => 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: 0.214549905173 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0674210298672 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0821752737934 0.0667982634062 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137180468409 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0724552878588 0.056905535591 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => 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: 14.27 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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