Many people believe that formal “pen and paper” examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement.Discuss this view and give your own opinion.

In today's scenario, many people believe that written examination should not be the only criteria of ranking a student. I too agree, that, not only bookish knowledge, but also overall intelligence should be taken into account before accessing an individual.

Needless to say, in many countries specially India success is judged in terms of academic excellence. This starts at primary level and even at tertiary level, one is always concerned about the score / marks obtained in examination. This is primarily because our education system is formed this way. Moreover, this is the trend which is being followed. In almost every school, half yearly, yearly and quarterly examinations are being conducted. Thus ranking is according to the grade/marks achieved.

However, to overcome this there can be oral tests. Supposedly, one might not be good at grasping thus putting his or her thoughts on paper. In that case, he/she can verbally transfer their knowledge. Given this opportunity, one can widen his or her horizon while speaking and marking can be done accordingly. One more way is through practical sessions. More of practical and less of theoretical examinations can be taken. This way knowledge can be diversified.

To sum up, clarifying a person as successful or unsuccessful in academics should not only be based on written examination. Neither it will do justice to them nor to the society as a whole. Subsequently, other means of assessment should be incorporated in the system.

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Average: 5.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, however, if, moreover, so, thus, while, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1258.0 1615.20841683 78% => OK
No of words: 239.0 315.596192385 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26359832636 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.20363070211 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96221576227 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.661087866109 0.561755894193 118% => OK
syllable_count: 395.1 506.74238477 78% => 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
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.2975951904 64% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.4944844234 49.4020404114 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 69.8888888889 106.682146367 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.2777777778 20.7667163134 64% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05555555556 7.06120827912 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 3.4128256513 352% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.096684711551 0.244688304435 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0334050273396 0.084324248473 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0359046162636 0.0667982634062 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0584289626066 0.151304729494 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0279401251887 0.056905535591 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.0946893788 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.82 50.2224549098 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.34 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.24 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.1190380762 71% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.

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