Only formal examinations written or practical can give a clear picture of a student s true knowledge and ability at the university level Continuous assessment like course work and projects are poor measures of student ability To what extent do you agree o

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Only formal examinations, written or practical, can give a clear picture of a student’s true knowledge and ability at the university level. Continuous assessment like course work and projects are poor measures of student ability. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In order to gain a qualification, some would argue that only formal assessment like written or practical tests can provide a complete picture in relations to student’s knowledge and skills in their particular study field. To counter this, I would the system of continuous assessment is equally important to measure student’s ability.

In the first place, may people say the conventional test conducting at the end of each semester is the gold standard to assess student. However, some smart student with a lot of potentials who cannot learn by reading or memorizing text books will also be re...

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Average: 9 (6 votes)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 201, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...ded. Assignments and group projects are some of the fun and creative ways to help a student...
^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, thus, well, in addition, in the first place

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1475.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38321167883 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20526898519 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591240875912 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4300077251 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.916666667 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8333333333 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06120827912 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.314541515671 0.244688304435 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115198342732 0.084324248473 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566514682649 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190048370811 0.151304729494 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0675648239441 0.056905535591 119% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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