Many people believe that formal ‘pen and paper’ examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement. What is your view of examinations?
Examinations play a central role in our lives, but it is sometimes argued that traditional exams are not the greatest method to evaluate academic performance. While I agree that formal tests are necessary to demonstrate educational attainment, I believe that there are some limitations.
On the one hand, I agree exams are really a virtuous method of assessment for students. We all need testing to get a certificate, which is crucial to prove our skills. Most exams are divided into two parts: easy part and difficult one that allows them to learn harder in order to get excellent results. This would lead to a difference in educational level. For instance, the final test of each course could decide the rank and who have a higher position would have more priority when applying for a job. Moreover, the employers tend to choose potential candidates based on their diplomas which provided after finishing an exam.
Nevertheless, ‘pen and paper’ examinations also have their demerits. Firstly, traditional exams are often predictable that students can prepare by rote learning. For example, the subjects related to social science could be gained top mark if students learned by heart carefully. Secondly, exams can make students anxious and stressed, which leads to panic psychology and results could be unexpected, not because they lack intelligence. Furthermore, some people express themselves much better verbally than in writing. Many people did poorly in exams but they succeed in fields which clearly require cleverness such as business or technology. Not only exams but also many different ways to assess educational achievement like team-work activities, interviews, personal skills.
In conclusion, while formal tests certainly affect people’s academic performance, I do not believe that exams outweigh all other elements.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 666, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... or technology. Not only exams but also many different ways to assess educational achievement ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, moreover, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1560.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45454545455 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90144065352 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664335664336 0.561755894193 118% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.1317763708 49.4020404114 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.875 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.625 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => 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: 0.17849695559 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562427493095 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609991082722 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111296045855 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0496761950093 0.056905535591 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.03 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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