Do you think formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge of students?

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Do you think formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge of students?

The idea of conventional written examinations in gauging students' performance is widely debated, with many people claiming the drawbacks it offers are no match for its benefits. However, I do not entirely accept this and I will explain why in this essay.

At the outset, there is a myriad of arguments in favour of my stance. But the most preponderant one lies in the fact that thanks to traditional written examinations, schools are able to measure the knowledge of their students. Not only formal examinations can assess the students properly, but it can also augment the time management and pressure handling and other skills. Needless to say, all these merits stand on students in good stead as far as measuring knowledge is concerned.

Moreover, another pivotal aspect of this argument is that students do not have to waste their time on assignments and other research, but they can occupy their time for playing and working. In addition, it is by giving students only three to four hours of written assessments that schools can save there and students time as well. For an example, when I was in school thanks to written examinations, I was able to make good money to pay my rent and school fee. Hence, it is apparent why many people are in favour of written examinations.

In view of the arguments outlined above, one can conclude that the benefits of formal evaluations are indeed too great to ignore.

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Average: 7.7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, moreover, so, well, in addition

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 : 10.0 8.36945812808 119% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 20.9802955665 110% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 31.9359605911 103% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.75862068966 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1178.0 1207.87684729 98% => OK
No of words: 241.0 242.827586207 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88796680498 5.00649968141 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94007293032 3.92707691288 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75461799859 2.71678728327 101% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 139.433497537 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560165975104 0.580463131201 97% => OK
syllable_count: 363.6 379.143842365 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.931034482759 322% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.8621211826 50.4703680194 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.090909091 104.977214359 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9090909091 20.9669160288 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.27272727273 7.25397266985 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 2.91625615764 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.262995441455 0.242375264174 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0877235098705 0.0925447433944 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0535834084903 0.071462118173 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139993219182 0.151781067708 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677033676276 0.0609392437508 111% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 12.6369458128 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.1260098522 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.9458128079 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 11.5310837438 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32886699507 98% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 55.0591133005 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => 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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