Written examination to assess students is a good idea or bad? Express your opinion providing examples and your own experiences

In the modern education system, there is an ongoing debate about what should be the pattern for examining student’s knowledge? Some people claim that written formal examination is not right method because it creates unwanted pressure on students. On the contrary, the number of the people think that it is the right way to testing knowledge in limited time. In subsequent paragraph, I will discuss both pros and cons of writing based examination.

To begin with the advantages, there are innumerable benefits of this pattern. Firstly, students cannot cheat because students should write an exam in examination hall where it is not possible to copy; however, in an assignment based examination, students get assignments form internet and can take help of their friends and relatives. Secondly, it enhances the comprehensive ability and time management of students because hours of examination are fixed.

On the flip side, some people claim that it is not at all good way to examine students’ knowledge because no one can examine the student’s abilities on the basis of two to three hours exam. Sometimes students fluster due to unnecessary pressure of examination and they forget everything; however, the student can be brilliant in that subject. Also, this pattern is based on related to extracurricular activities which play a vital role in student life.

In the nutshell, the foregoing discussions propound that both sides are valid as a student point of view. But I personally feel that schools should assess the student’s knowledge on the basis of both practical and written as well.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, on the contrary, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 6.10837438424 131% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 20.9802955665 81% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 31.9359605911 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.75862068966 156% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1363.0 1207.87684729 113% => OK
No of words: 257.0 242.827586207 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30350194553 5.00649968141 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 3.92707691288 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02007695473 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 139.433497537 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571984435798 0.580463131201 99% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 379.143842365 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 3.0 1.56157635468 192% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 3.65517241379 192% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7036569761 50.4703680194 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.583333333 104.977214359 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4166666667 20.9669160288 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.16666666667 7.25397266985 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 2.91625615764 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15928127409 0.242375264174 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592072824706 0.0925447433944 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418911673224 0.071462118173 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103509128626 0.151781067708 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0251211179856 0.0609392437508 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 12.6369458128 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.1260098522 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 11.5310837438 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.32886699507 109% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 55.0591133005 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.94827586207 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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