In the education system, is assessment through formal written examination still valid?

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In the education system, is assessment through formal written examination still valid?

People reasonably argue that the evaluation of academic excellence through written examination is justified and some are against of this opinion. However, in my perspective, assessment through paper based hourly exams should contribute only 25-30 percentage of the evaluation and remaining should be done based on day-to-day performances of an individual.

Firstly, three to four hours exam could not judge overall effectiveness of an individual despite the hourly based exam's score deem many things such as time management, preparations and so forth. Some people are perfect at their jobs although they do not have good academic performances. For instance, in a survey conducted among the employer of data company by academicexcellency.com, many employers responded that they recruit the employees based upon applicant's data processing efficiency regardless of their academic scores.

Secondly, exam papers are rather subjective and scored by few mentors whereas day-to-day activities of an individual are examined by a group reflect average remark of the group though subjective. Some people do good at their exams but perform lowly in practical job. For example, few employees with poor grade in their engineering courses are performing excellent who were recruited in our company based upon the recommendation of every individual of our circle whereas one of the gold medallists of engineering is poor at same job.

In a nutshell, assessment through written papers should cover about one fourth of the total marks for this way teaches some lessons: time management, meeting deadlines.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, whereas, for example, for instance, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 8.36945812808 60% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 5.94088669951 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 20.9802955665 62% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 31.9359605911 125% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.75862068966 174% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1362.0 1207.87684729 113% => OK
No of words: 242.0 242.827586207 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.62809917355 5.00649968141 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 3.92707691288 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13985421892 2.71678728327 116% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 139.433497537 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611570247934 0.580463131201 105% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 379.143842365 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.6157635468 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 12.6551724138 71% => 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: 26.0 20.5024630542 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.8016406536 50.4703680194 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.333333333 104.977214359 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8888888889 20.9669160288 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.25397266985 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 6.9802955665 43% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0879950132788 0.242375264174 36% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0419348991639 0.0925447433944 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567018919684 0.071462118173 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0701006845433 0.151781067708 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0616828847819 0.0609392437508 101% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 12.6369458128 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.17 53.1260098522 53% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 10.9458128079 144% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.67 11.5310837438 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.75 8.32886699507 117% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 55.0591133005 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.94827586207 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.3980295567 119% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.5123152709 152% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.4444444444 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.0 Out of 90
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