The current trend in education is to move away from traditional exams and instead have continuous assessment over the school year.
What do you think of this trend?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge
or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
In recent times, criteria for passing an academic year for students has changed significantly. Many education institutes are giving preference to continuous assessment as a mode of assessing children's performance instead of traditional examinations. In my view, this change is necessary for children as it emphasizes on overall learning and provide multiple platform to them in a year.
To start with, the advantage of regular assessment is that it induces pupils to focus on better learning with smaller content. This is due to the reason that in this method the syllabus is devided into four or five parts, and then the students are being grade periodically, as per their performances. As a result, children have better opportunities to comprehend the subjects. Alternatively, in traditional exams students had to learn an ample amount of syllabus, and after that they were graded on a set of questionaire.
In addition to this, in continous assessment, there are many chance in an academic year for students to score good grades. For instance, if in first assessment a student was not able to do well, he will have an opportunity to score diligently good in next assessment to cover-up his poor performance. Contrastingly, in other form of examinations, if a student failed in some subjects, he would have to compromise an entire year because of it. Therefore, with periodic assessment, students will feel more confident when they prepare for their examination.
In conclusion, continual assessment, undoubtedly, will provide great benefits to students such as learning subjects in smaller propotions and opportunities to score good grades in an overall academic year.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun chance seems to be countable; consider using: 'many chances'.
Suggestion: many chances
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, so, then, therefore, well, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in my view, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1418.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 265.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35094339623 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21755154573 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581132075472 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 445.5 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.8555551128 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.166666667 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0833333333 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5833333333 7.06120827912 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143070898442 0.244688304435 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0586674863692 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.038739540152 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0905262925653 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0473422402758 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => 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: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => 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: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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