Children have more and more tests and exams to do at school sometimes starting from the age of five or six right up until the age of 18 What are the advantages and disadvantages of making children do exams

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Children have more and more tests and exams to do at school, sometimes starting from the age of five or six, right up until the age of 18. What are the advantages and disadvantages of making children do exams?

During school time, children have to take a lot of exams and test for many purposes. More and more people critic this kid of evaluation methods, which do not examine all aspects of learners. The popularity of doing test and exams at school show that there many positive by doing these, however, it brings a lot of negatives. In this essay, I will discuss some of the reasons why doing test and exam at school is popular and in some cases, it already has been an out of date method.
At first, test and exam could be an easy method to evaluation in school. This method has a long history in education. By taking an exam, the teacher can evaluate knowledge learnt in the course, and quickly given a result of the exam. A multi-choice test based on question bank can apply for many pupils, and results are quickly ready.
Another advantage is that easy quality control of exam. Usually, in school, there maybe have two exams in a semester: mid-exam and final exam. For a course, only one test can apply for all, and teacher and head of school can easily control quality due to the simplicity of this method.
Turning to the other side of the argument, the main drawback of this evaluation method is that it is not adequate for estimating knowledge, ability, and attitude of pupils. Only one or two exams (midterm and final exams) does not estimate fully, what pupils have learnt in the course.
Especially, for primary school, there is no need to take test or exam at all. Children should be encouraged to join in class and do task as teamwork. And for well-done solution, a teacher should give them good marks which is call process evaluation. The exam also puts children in stress condition. Before taking an exam, they should spend so much time and sources to review the lesson, and after long tension exam, they may get a bad mark. This can affect badly on the emotion.
All things considered, doing test and exam in school have benefits due to its simplicity, easy quality control. On the other hand, this kind of evaluation method cannot estimate adequately pupils and unsuitable for pupils at the primary school.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, may, so, well, kind of, in some cases, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 10.4138276553 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1747.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 375.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65866666667 5.12529762239 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36515444645 2.80592935109 84% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 552.6 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0104477497 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.1904761905 106.682146367 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8571428571 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 7.06120827912 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296821095322 0.244688304435 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104022499743 0.084324248473 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726334692304 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1683093321 0.151304729494 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0713345153851 0.056905535591 125% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 13.0946893788 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.45 12.4159519038 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.58950901804 91% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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