Many people believe that formal "pen and paper" examinations are not the best method of assessing education achievement. Discuss this view and give your own opinion.
Traditional examinations with pen and paper play an integral part in evaluating the academic results of the students. Currently, with the development of education system, many people argued that this way is not optimal to assess education achievement. This essay will discuss both pros and cons of this method.
To begin with, there are some positive influences of applying conventional examinations in schools. First and foremost, taking exams makes students have more motivation to study hard. Due to the fact that the formal exams indicate the score and rank of students in the class, pupils wil...
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Assessing educational
Assessing educational achievement through formal “pen and paper” examinations is not considered a best option by many people. In my opinion, written exams are a way of judging only writing skills of the students. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss why ‘pen and paper’ examinations are not considered best option along with my explanation.
Firstly, written exams can judge theoretical knowledge of the students whereas these cannot assess practical knowledge of the students. Moreover, papers are made of wood and therefore, cutting of trees is required to meet the amount of papers needed. To add more, many intelligent students have poor hand-writing and therefore, it would be hard to read by the examiner. Hence, they get poor scores and which is not considered good as deserving students get less marks.
Secondly, after writing a long exam, students feel exhausted and it would be hard for them to prepare for the next exam. Although, it is considered a best option by some students but many students feel it is an inefficient way to assess student’s ability because many students feel comfortable in giving exam orally or online and it even helps in building student’s confidence and therefore help in cracking interviews. Some pupils feel very nervous while giving paper exams and thus, in result, they score very less.
In conclusion, I think that written exams are not the best way and I believe that different ways of exams should be added for future.
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Suggestion: to
...fall behind with their studies but also to to gain good results. In addition, formal ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1843.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29597701149 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00059859928 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574712643678 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7512629575 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.411764706 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4705882353 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4117647059 7.06120827912 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316433864564 0.244688304435 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0979581157962 0.084324248473 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112749160842 0.0667982634062 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214275498345 0.151304729494 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0730341312276 0.056905535591 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => 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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