Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?
The idea of conducting written examinations at schools and universities is widely debated with many academics claiming that these formal exams are a correct method of assessing a student’s ability and skill. However, I believe that these written examinations focus only on theoretical aspects of studies and restrict the analytical and reasoning abilities of children. This essay will further elaborate on both sides and will thus, lead to a logical conclusion.
To begin with, there are many reasons why written tests are not a proper method of judging a student’s capability. The most conspicuous one is that most children do not cope up with the extreme exam pressure and stress owing to which they underperform. Furthermore, the child feels depressed and dejected once he fails in the exam thus, alienating him from his peers. Hence, it is apparent that written forms of examinations are conventional exams and judging a student in a two or three hours test is not an appropriate way to assess the calibre of the students.
Nevertheless, there are some merits of written examinations and the most primary one is that a student goes through a lot when he prepares for these kinds of exams. Moreover, these tests assess what a student has learned throughout a year and eventually, test his knowledge of the subject in proper timed conditions. For instance, many students study all year for their subjects which augments their learning process and broaden their expertise. Thus, evidently written examination helps in the development of children
In views of the arguments outlined above, the conventional form of examinations has a prominent impact although the demerits of these examinations outweigh the upsides in terms of assessing the knowledge of children.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, hence, however, moreover, nevertheless, so, thus, for instance, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.5418719212 95% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 6.10837438424 33% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 8.36945812808 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 20.9802955665 105% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.75862068966 52% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1496.0 1207.87684729 124% => OK
No of words: 284.0 242.827586207 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2676056338 5.00649968141 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01738992113 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 139.433497537 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566901408451 0.580463131201 98% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 379.143842365 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.5024630542 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.0005457636 50.4703680194 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.0 104.977214359 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8181818182 20.9669160288 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.18181818182 7.25397266985 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 6.9802955665 43% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226238188224 0.242375264174 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0785410391742 0.0925447433944 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0737705069717 0.071462118173 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135951745279 0.151781067708 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320021189509 0.0609392437508 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 12.6369458128 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.1260098522 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.9458128079 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 11.5310837438 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.32886699507 111% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 55.0591133005 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.94827586207 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.3980295567 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => 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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