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

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

Formal written exams are set of predefined questioners which do not assure to test the full potential of student's knowledge at school. While some might agree with the formal examination pattern followed to access student's knowledge in the school. I believe, judging a student knowledge with formal written examination would not be fair. We will further discuss the flaws in the formal written examination and the reason why it is not capable of accessing knowledge in the school.

Firstly, with a set of the specific questioner that formal written exams provide to assess the skills of an individual at school do not assure the diversity of knowledge an individual might have acquired. As the set of the question could be found repetitive and one can memorize the set of answer, it is hard to assess knowledge one might possess in real. Furthermore, as humans are diverse, everyone has their own level of capabilities to understand and acquire knowledge, therefore, judging knowledge based on a formal set of written examination which is set common to everyone would not yield proper result.

Secondly, As humans are diverse species, every single individual has their own skills and understanding level. It is necessary to treat the student differently and need to get assessed for their knowledge individually. For example, one might know more about a certain topic than others as formal written examination doesn't bother about the level of knowledge a student might possess. This clearly states its flaws in assessing knowledge at school.

To conclude, formal written examinations are not the preferred way of assessing knowledge at school because it does not assure to test knowledge of an individual student.

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Average: 7.2 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as for, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.5418719212 95% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 6.10837438424 180% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 8.36945812808 60% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 5.94088669951 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 20.9802955665 57% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 31.9359605911 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.75862068966 104% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1445.0 1207.87684729 120% => OK
No of words: 277.0 242.827586207 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21660649819 5.00649968141 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82311392614 2.71678728327 104% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 139.433497537 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480144404332 0.580463131201 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 450.9 379.143842365 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.6157635468 108% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.71428571429 233% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.034155001 50.4703680194 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.416666667 104.977214359 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0833333333 20.9669160288 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.25397266985 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 2.75862068966 217% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.418438345855 0.242375264174 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.187140812124 0.0925447433944 202% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107519684144 0.071462118173 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.311081459381 0.151781067708 205% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0896531652557 0.0609392437508 147% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 12.6369458128 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.1260098522 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.9458128079 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 11.5310837438 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32886699507 100% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 55.0591133005 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.94827586207 111% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 72.2222222222 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 65.0 Out of 90
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