Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?
Formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school has always been a debatable topic. Many people believe that evaluation can be done by continuous assessment of their assignment work and project works. On the other side, benefits associated with formal examinations are high compared to traditional exams. In my opinion, I completely agree that conducting exams through annual examinations is the best method to judge student capability. This essay would further elaborate both sides with justifying reasons and thus lead to a plausible conclusion.
To commence with, most of the homework done by students are completed by their parents. A study by the Education Department of India proved that many parents help their children in the completion of their assignments. Not only this, projects are copied from other fellow students in order to submit the task on time. Thus, it is clear that it is not a reliable method to judge students' capabilities.
On the flip side, the examination that is conducted in educational institutions makes students to learn the concept and memorize the content what they have studied in the classroom. Moreover, these exams are conducted in presence of invigilator and that restricts them to take any external help. This formal written assignment shows how much grasping power does an individual have. Therefore, yearly exams are considered as one of the most reliable methods to test one's ability.
To conclude, looking at the discussion it is clear that advantages of written formal assessment outweigh the advantages of testing by assignments and project work. I personally believe that written examination method should be implemented across the globe and it is estimated that in near future many countries will adopt this method of assessment because of its effectiveness.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, moreover, so, therefore, thus, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 8.36945812808 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 20.9802955665 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 31.9359605911 141% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.75862068966 226% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1552.0 1207.87684729 128% => OK
No of words: 291.0 242.827586207 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33333333333 5.00649968141 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92243746856 2.71678728327 108% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 139.433497537 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594501718213 0.580463131201 102% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 379.143842365 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.65517241379 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.3766714011 50.4703680194 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.466666667 104.977214359 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4 20.9669160288 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.6 7.25397266985 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 2.75862068966 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 2.91625615764 206% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222627268831 0.242375264174 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0753735329282 0.0925447433944 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.140026000541 0.071462118173 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132470203505 0.151781067708 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111210423099 0.0609392437508 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 12.6369458128 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 11.5310837438 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.32886699507 112% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 55.0591133005 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => 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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