Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?

Formal written assessment is considered an effective way of evaluation by many. In my opinion, written assessment is an effective way of assessing the progress of a schoolchild because firstly, it increases the cognitive abilities and prepare them to handle stressful condition and secondly, this method is better in comparison to other methods like continual writing an assignments.

At the outset, formal written examination enhances the cognitive abilities of a student which helps a student to grasp many brain related activities. In other words, formal assessment increases the brain power because formal assessment needs a student to memorize the topic, and answer question comprehensively. Generally in English subject students are asked to explain a poem which requires a skill to answer in an appropriate ways. Moreover, Formal examination enables students to handle stressful condition of life because formal written evaluation is quite stressful and it needs different traits to handle these situations.

Furthermore, there are other methods such as continual assessment are in practice in some schools, however it is not considered very effective because it gives student and opportunity to cheat and there are numerous instances where students were found in plagiarism. Therefore, other assessment methods are not as effective as the formal written assessment.

In conclusion, this essay has discussed how written assessment helps in improving the functioning of brain and also dealing with stress, however other methods has many issues which do not help student's progress. So Formal written is an effective method for evaluation of a student.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, in other words

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.5418719212 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 6.10837438424 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 5.94088669951 67% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 20.9802955665 43% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 31.9359605911 94% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 5.75862068966 278% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1415.0 1207.87684729 117% => OK
No of words: 251.0 242.827586207 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6374501992 5.00649968141 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98032404683 3.92707691288 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00910508578 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 139.433497537 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.490039840637 0.580463131201 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 441.9 379.143842365 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 12.6551724138 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.5024630542 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.339564639 50.4703680194 149% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.5 104.977214359 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1 20.9669160288 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.4 7.25397266985 199% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.33497536946 75% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => 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: 0.228618086007 0.242375264174 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118978921279 0.0925447433944 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667555154045 0.071462118173 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148011791648 0.151781067708 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.03608441239 0.0609392437508 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 12.6369458128 140% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 53.1260098522 55% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 10.9458128079 141% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.73 11.5310837438 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32886699507 102% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 55.0591133005 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.94827586207 146% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.3980295567 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 58.5 Out of 90
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