Do you think formal written assessments in today's world to assess students’ performance is effective or not? Discuss your viewpoint on this and support your answer with examples.

A writing assessment is an exam in which the students have to demonstrate their skills on writing. Some people believe written assessments can display a student's writing skills while others don't. In this Essay we will discuss about how students can reveal about their writing skills in a test.

A writing exam can display a students skill by prompting difficult questions to the students and make them answer for it. Because, in order to answer complex grammatical questions, one must be proficient in his language skills. This helps to assess a pupil based on his language skills. For example many of the universities conduct their language exams in writing form. In summary a writing exam is a best tool to assess the performance of a student.

In contrast, it is possible to cheat the evaluation system in an writing assessment exam to a certain level if the evaluation is automated. Artificial intelligence is the technology behind automated evaluation of written exams.
Pupils all over the world follows some templates or clues to misguide such systems and obtain greater results. One must also notice that, such automated systems are maturing over time. So it will be difficult for the exam takers to cheat on writing exams.

In conclusion, although there are some disadvantages in using writing to evaluate a student's performance effectively all of its advantages outweigh its difficulties.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, while, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, in summary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 6.10837438424 115% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 8.36945812808 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 5.94088669951 34% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 31.9359605911 106% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1181.0 1207.87684729 98% => OK
No of words: 228.0 242.827586207 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1798245614 5.00649968141 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88582923847 3.92707691288 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87442033178 2.71678728327 106% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 139.433497537 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543859649123 0.580463131201 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 366.3 379.143842365 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.6157635468 43% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.65517241379 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.5024630542 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.62033043 50.4703680194 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 84.3571428571 104.977214359 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2857142857 20.9669160288 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.14285714286 7.25397266985 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.12807881773 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.33497536946 131% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 2.91625615764 206% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149215704874 0.242375264174 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0596601161062 0.0925447433944 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0466135363049 0.071462118173 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0806562860185 0.151781067708 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442144000976 0.0609392437508 73% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 12.6369458128 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.1260098522 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.9458128079 87% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 11.5310837438 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32886699507 100% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 55.0591133005 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 9.94827586207 60% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.3980295567 81% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 56.5 Out of 90
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