Formal exams are used to assess students at the end of each semester in many countries.
Why are these exams used by schools and universities?
What other types of assessment are possible.
In many countries, universities conduct formal exams at the end of every semester. These examinations can help the teachers to assess their students, to what extend they are taught and studied. Even written examinations are more prevalent, there are many other ways to measure students ability such as written assignments and research works are two of them.
The formal examination is important for the universities and schools to determine the knowledge gained by the students and teachers to evaluate themselves. These methods can help teachers to understand the areas to improve and to determine the progress of their students. For instance, teachers and students need to evaluate individually to understand their negativity, which helps them to focus in the future by introducing advanced learning and teaching methods. Because of these reasons examination methods always take a predominant role in schools and universities today.
Formal examinations are not the only way to measure students acquired knowledge, there are myriad of ways to measure such as written assignments and research works. Individual assignments and research help them to apply their knowledge and ability gained from the education by practical application.
While doing research papers during my university studies, enabled me to apply various theoretical aspects to the practical application. These evaluations done through assignments and research helped me to assess myself and teachers, to evaluate my level of understanding of the subjects.
In conclusion, formal examinations conducted by the universities and schools in every semester to assess their students progress. Although it may help teachers to assess their students progress, it can also help them to understand the areas where they need to improve. Despite formal examinations there are many other ways to monitor students knowledge by practical application of their knowledge.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1651.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 290.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.69310344828 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02533888787 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 176.041082164 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462068965517 0.561755894193 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.7678035356 49.4020404114 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 117.928571429 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64285714286 7.06120827912 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224635293461 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0965467406228 0.084324248473 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.087377804528 0.0667982634062 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135547708365 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0906294809671 0.056905535591 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 50.2224549098 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.72 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.