Many people believe that formal pen and paper examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement What is your view of examination

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Many people believe that formal ‘ pen and paper’ examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement. What is your view of examination?

Using examination to examine students knowledge is a conventional method applied in most educational systems all around the world. Also, an exam is a requisite way to verify that the learner is ready to move on to the subsequent stage of their curriculum. However, it also existed some drawbacks making us reconsider about this method.

Generally, it is undeniable that there are some striking advantages of exams. After the learning process, to assess the study process of the students, exams have to be celebrated. They help ensure justice by imposing the same condition on all exam candidates. Also, in the exams, there are assorted types of questions such as multiple choices question, fulfill- the blanks, or essay tasks to evaluate, and promote learners’ capabilities with multiple aspects.

On the other hand, exams also have some negative sides. With “ pen and paper” exams, we usually see that a person with test-wise skills can get good grades even better than the studious learner who has more knowledge. For instance, with the multiple-choice question, students may select the arbitrary answer. It is so shocking that this random selection is precise. Meanwhile, another student makes an all-out effort to find out the answer, but they cannot have the exact answer just because of making an error at the terminal step. Also, because of anxiety or pressure, learners cannot do the test well and work the best of their potential. In these circumstances, we could perceive that there are lots of problems with the examination.

Personally, we should modify the method to check for students’ abilities to surmount subjective matters to guarantee fairness for all of students. Besides pen and paper exam, we can associate with other methods such as teamwork assignments, presentations in front of the class, or making a practical research to accumulate the grade for the learners. In this way, we can evaluate all students' abilities most effectively.

In conclusion, exams play a significant role in ensuring proper and objective assessment of the student. However, it will be better if we can design and supplement other forms of assessment besides the traditional exam to guarantee the examination is to be a truly beneficial element of the educational system.

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Average: 8.1 (5 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 290, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'practical research'.
Suggestion: practical research
...ations in front of the class, or making a practical research to accumulate the grade for the learner...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, may, so, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1923.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 367.0 315.596192385 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23978201635 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9015990421 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588555858311 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 604.8 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1784540526 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.210526316 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3157894737 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.78947368421 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.115255024582 0.244688304435 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0331440374745 0.084324248473 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0529454553143 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0727465674335 0.151304729494 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0483676980105 0.056905535591 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.83 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 78.4519038076 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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