Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student's performance. Continual assessment such as coursework and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this.

In the last decade, the examination system has sparked heated debates across the society. A substantial number of individuals feel that formal examination is the only way to assess a student's performance, others feel that coursework and projects are more effective in achieving that. This essay will assert both points before delivering a plausible conclusion.

On the outset, innovations are happening so rapidly in every field in today’s generation and education should evolve with the advancement. Schools should place their focus on teaching new technologies and developments instead of making students take copious exams. Students should not limit their knowledge to textbooks, instead, schools should engage them in experiential learning through varied sessions. For instance, schools could introduce hands on classes on machine work and should allow for them to practice the same outside class.

Furthermore, exams only force students into memorizing materials and present the same thing during the examination. Many have also criticized that the exam questions do not test students on their application skills in the subject field and therefore not useful at all in real world jobs. Scientists have also asserted that learning through coursework and projects have been proven to help students gain a better understanding of the topic and develop strong communication skills that are essential for careers.

According to the aforementioned arguments, one can deduce that the exams is not the only effective way to assess performance but there are numerous benefits assessing students through coursework and projects. In a nutshell, schools should concentrate their efforts in the development of learning through practical knowledge.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 184, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...examination is the only way to assess a students performance, others feel that coursewor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, so, therefore, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.5418719212 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 6.10837438424 147% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 8.36945812808 119% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 20.9802955665 67% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 31.9359605911 110% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.75862068966 208% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1495.0 1207.87684729 124% => OK
No of words: 261.0 242.827586207 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72796934866 5.00649968141 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 3.92707691288 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95127611055 2.71678728327 109% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 139.433497537 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613026819923 0.580463131201 106% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 379.143842365 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.6157635468 22% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9276551718 50.4703680194 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.583333333 104.977214359 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 20.9669160288 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 7.25397266985 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 2.91625615764 206% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268732575949 0.242375264174 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875874360277 0.0925447433944 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123575164107 0.071462118173 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171532717612 0.151781067708 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113819876381 0.0609392437508 187% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 12.6369458128 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.1260098522 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.95 11.5310837438 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.88 8.32886699507 119% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 55.0591133005 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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