Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student’s performance. Continual assessment such as coursework and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

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Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student’s performance. Continual assessment such as coursework and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

The importance of examination on student life which was debatable has now become more controversial.The substantial influence of Evaluation and grading has sparked the controversy over recent years. It can be agreed that assessment, either in summative form or formative form is very important to evaluate how well and how far a student can progress. The essay will elaborate the pros and cons of both formal and continual examination and those will lead to a logical conclusion.

At the outset, there are numerous reasons how formal examination can benefit the students but the most conspicuous one stems from the fact that it is under practice since long time ago and it is effect to test student memory and how he has gained his knowledge throughout the year or semester. The Traditional exam is done in the supervision of invigilator in a peaceful strict environment that a student cannot take help from anyone and other resources of knowledge give optimum level of assessment. Since the formal examination is taken once. It does not consider the student health or personal problem he is facing which can affect the evaluation. For instance, it does not consider if a student faces unusual things while travelling to the exam centre, which can affect his evaluations.

In contrast, there is another type of examination, which is continual examination system throughout the education. It involves project work, assignments, and practical tasks. It evaluates the different level of skills and abilities, which he is learning during the studies. Such examination takes places throughout the year which means student do not have to study his entire syllabus at the end of the term.

To conclude, it is evident that both continual assessment and formal examinations are effective in different ways, but they also have some weakness. I believe, depending on student ability, the evaluation procedure should be selected.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, well, while, for instance, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 6.10837438424 147% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 8.36945812808 191% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 5.94088669951 168% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 20.9802955665 100% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 31.9359605911 106% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 5.75862068966 313% => Less nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1620.0 1207.87684729 134% => OK
No of words: 309.0 242.827586207 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2427184466 5.00649968141 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 3.92707691288 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95432211972 2.71678728327 109% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 139.433497537 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569579288026 0.580463131201 98% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 379.143842365 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.6157635468 152% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.325123152709 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 1.56157635468 320% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.0520272161 50.4703680194 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.714285714 104.977214359 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0714285714 20.9669160288 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.07142857143 7.25397266985 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => 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: 0.153180256088 0.242375264174 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0535515649183 0.0925447433944 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396110961142 0.071462118173 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.098340464427 0.151781067708 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249483172145 0.0609392437508 41% => 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: 14.3 12.6369458128 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.1260098522 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 10.9458128079 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 11.5310837438 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.32886699507 108% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 55.0591133005 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.94827586207 146% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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