The current trend in education is to move away from traditional exams and instead have continuous assessment over the school year What do you think of this trend Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or exp

Recently, there is a growing tendency in education to have continuous assessments over the school year instead of formal tests. I believe that this trend will reduce the stress of students and strengthen students’ knowledge during the learning process.

By dividing into smaller assessments, students do not have to face several depressing days with lots of knowledge to review. Facts have shown that most students lose weight and often appear with panda eyes before the final exam. So, mini-tests, which require a smaller amount of knowledge, allow students to have a relaxing time while doing their revision.

Besides, continuous assessments also help students to reinforce their knowledge. Because of taking the exam right after two or three lessons, students will have time to recall their short-term memory and review each lesson in detail. And finally, short-term memory will turn to long-term memory due to their regular revision.

To sum up, teacher appraisal of students' learning process along the school term should be encouraged.

Votes
Average: 5.6 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, finally, so, then, while, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 13.1623246493 15% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 24.0651302605 33% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 891.0 1615.20841683 55% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 163.0 315.596192385 52% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46625766871 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57311423478 4.20363070211 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6217789796 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 176.041082164 63% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.680981595092 0.561755894193 121% => OK
syllable_count: 256.5 506.74238477 51% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 16.0721442886 56% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 21.0771656913 49.4020404114 43% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.0 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1111111111 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 7.06120827912 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134687858587 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637509502731 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605931804814 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0891155786994 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0773208778693 0.056905535591 136% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.15 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 78.4519038076 55% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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