EXAMINATIONS ONLY SUIT PEOPLE WHO ARE GOOD AT TAKING EXAMS. How far do you agree or disagree with this statement? Compare the benefits of examinations with other types of assessment.
Exams have long been considered an effective method of assessing the knowledge and the ability of students. However, these days, many people claim that examinations suit people who are good at taking exams; therefore, other types of evaluations such as presentations or work projects should be applied in replace of exams. From my point of view, I strongly agree with this idea due to the disadvantages of tests and the merits of other assessments I will state in this essay.
Exams are not effective methods of assessing the knowledge of students as some people claim they are because students can treat during examinations. Consequently, some pupils who study day and night may not achieve their goals, meanwhile, some students can get nearly full points due to treating though they have adopted no knowledge or skills. This means exams can evaluate students' abilities wrongly; also, tests usually bring anxiety and stress to students. As schools and universities pay great attention to exam results, students have to strive for the highest positions in the rank to get to renowned schools and colleges. As a result, the competitiveness increases greatly and puts pupils under such pressure that they can get mental disorders, some may even commit suicide. In a word, examinations are not competent enough to judge the amount of knowledge and skills students have acquired due to their detriments.
Giving short presentations is a great method to test students' real abilities. Pupils need to learn to conduct researches, evaluate results, and consider examples in order to prepare for their presentations. They can improve interpersonal skills as well as meticulousness during the process of making a plan for a speech. Therefore, students can not only be evaluated accurately but also develop necessary skills for their future. This way of assessment definitely outweigh examinations thanks to its accuracy, flexibility, and innovativeness.
In conclusion, tests may not be eliminated immediately but reduced gradually in the light of their inaccuracy as well as negative impacts on students. Therefore, other assessments, for example, giving presentations or doing work projects can be applied widely to judge students' acquisition of knowledge and skills.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, may, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1909.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 354.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39265536723 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03325777834 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545197740113 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 506.74238477 116% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.0724756035 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.3125 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.125 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.9375 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171924292146 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0546488543617 0.084324248473 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0656880980509 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116677966384 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113257238333 0.056905535591 199% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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