Do you think that formal written examination are a good way to assess knowledge at school.
These days, it has become a growing trend for schools to access knowledge by taking formal written exams. As such, there are both merits and demerits to this trend, although I am of the opinion that the former outdo the latter.
There is a myriad of arguments in favor of my stance. The most conspicuous one is that in order to examine the learning skills of students from reading to writing and speaking to listening, it is very important to conduct routine examinations procedures to ensure student's learning skills are successful. Not only can exams help in ensuring the learning skills, but it can also enhance the confidence level of students.
There are, however, some pitfalls that can easily overwhelm the potential benefits of formal written examination. The primary one stems from the fact that by cheating in exams, students can easily achieve higher grades. Besides, by formal written examination procedures, one can not decide the competency level of any student as it is not an effective procedure all the time. For instance, in order to get admission in University for higher studies, it is mandatory to pass the exam to get admission in University, if student cheats and pass the exam, it is not fair with other students. Hence, it is apparent why many are against the examination method.
In view of the above outlined arguments, one can conclude that the benefits of formal written examination are indeed too great to ignore.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.5418719212 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 8.36945812808 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 20.9802955665 76% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 31.9359605911 113% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1210.0 1207.87684729 100% => OK
No of words: 243.0 242.827586207 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97942386831 5.00649968141 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 3.92707691288 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6711464683 2.71678728327 98% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 139.433497537 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567901234568 0.580463131201 98% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 379.143842365 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2152811523 50.4703680194 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.0 104.977214359 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0909090909 20.9669160288 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.09090909091 7.25397266985 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146765994954 0.242375264174 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0585242437187 0.0925447433944 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0636885728416 0.071462118173 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.096945640186 0.151781067708 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358980650165 0.0609392437508 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 12.6369458128 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.1260098522 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 11.5310837438 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.32886699507 107% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 55.0591133005 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.94827586207 106% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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