In education system assessment through written formal examinations is valid or not OR Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school

Examinations are the medium of assessing student's ability to comprehend wider range of understanding and knowledge. It is a standardized implementation of testing large number of students by providing same sets of question and checking how they present the required information. They provide great means of judging student's underlying knowledge, but comes with inescapable drawbacks.

Written examinations provide a standardized procedure to verify how student's have assimilated the concepts, making them an ideal choice for testing. Because of standardization, they are widely accepted as an authentic medium of certifying whether students actually gained that understanding or not. They also ensures equality as everyone are tested on the same level of problem by providing same sets of questions. Thereby, whosoever performs well among the group, can actually be considered better than the others.

In contrast, these examinations are eventually testing the learning ability of students, not their real understanding of knowledge. For an instance, student with better learning ability will perform well then others, even when he or she learned that part just before the test, without actually comprehending the real application. Moreover, students suffering from pre-examination stress are real. This is unknowingly hampering the health of so many students on regular basis. Such stress will impact the performance, leading to unexpected outcomes from the examination which may result in damaging self-confidence and can cause detrimental effects on the learning thrive of the students. Unfortunately, such cases if not handled appropriately, can result in several suicide cases which can be easily prevented if system has been more accepting towards other parameters of judgement.

Hence, it can be clearly concluded that written examination provide efficient way of standardized testing at the cost of hampering student's health, introducing inequality and damaging the self-confidence, making search of alternatives - a prime concern.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 310, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'They' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'ensure'
Suggestion: ensure
...ed that understanding or not. They also ensures equality as everyone are tested on the ...
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Line 5, column 665, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to thrive'
Suggestion: to thrive
...use detrimental effects on the learning thrive of the students. Unfortunately, such ca...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, may, moreover, so, then, well, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 6.10837438424 131% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.75862068966 226% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1753.0 1207.87684729 145% => OK
No of words: 297.0 242.827586207 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.90235690236 5.00649968141 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.28967418116 2.71678728327 121% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 139.433497537 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619528619529 0.580463131201 107% => OK
syllable_count: 540.0 379.143842365 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.6157635468 152% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0078977519 50.4703680194 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.214285714 104.977214359 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2142857143 20.9669160288 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.28571428571 7.25397266985 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.109112656986 0.242375264174 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0406795687266 0.0925447433944 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470059116153 0.071462118173 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0746111286333 0.151781067708 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0284598258202 0.0609392437508 47% => 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: 17.0 12.6369458128 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 53.1260098522 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.9458128079 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.94 11.5310837438 147% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.84 8.32886699507 118% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 55.0591133005 176% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.94827586207 106% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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