There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment?

Evaluation of students have changed a lot over the last few years. Presently, majority of them are getting assessed by it and some by continual tests. While traditional examination does offer some benefits in terms of time, it has some drawbacks as well.

An evident advantage of evaluating by former is that it makes easy and quick to distinguish the intelligency. Pupil who tend to score better grades are often considered more intelligent as compared to remaining ones. Secondly, it offers an opportunity to learn new things, as they are distinguished and unique in themselves. For instance, in subject of science, one test can be on planets and other can be a detailed study of earth. Various researches have found that candidates having better marks have 70 percent more chances of getting their dream job. Hence, this mode of assessment is increasing day by day.

On the other hand, conducting more of it can put students under immense pressure to perform. This can have a detrimental effect on their learning and behavior and may also affect their mental state of health. With no continual assessment in place results in incomplete evaluation, as they do not incorporate parameters of real life examples and related assignments. Also there is limited interaction between pupil and teachers with limited and no constructive feedback. Hence, existing technique should be modified to strengthen the process.

In conclusion, they are one of the easiest way to check the performance. However, judging only by it can put some bright students under the hammer. Therefore, the current process along with some addition of continual assessment is an optimal solution.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 367, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... life examples and related assignments. Also there is limited interaction between pu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1404.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 270.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90048952871 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.622222222222 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.8315890506 49.4020404114 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.5882352941 106.682146367 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8823529412 20.7667163134 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.58823529412 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142081687121 0.244688304435 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.044133480088 0.084324248473 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0448630012962 0.0667982634062 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0855931483409 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.015227329719 0.056905535591 27% => 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: 11.0 13.0946893788 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 50.2224549098 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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