A few individuals are of the opinion that examinations are an inconvenient method of checking the ability of academicians and consider semester method to be adopted in its place. On the other hand, some believe that the age-old method of testing is necessary to ensure discipline among students and good grades. I firmly disagree with the view proposed in the statement. My inclination towards the same will be discussed in the ensuing paragraphs.
To begin with, the foremost argument in the support of examinations is that they can serve as a feedback mechanism for the teachers. The professors can know about the strong and weak areas of students in their subjects and can help them to improve their performance. The exams also can sharpen the intellectual abilities of the pupils. Under the pressure of examinations, the student will revise the topics discussed in the class and would also apply his own thinking to pass the exam with excellent grades.
The secondary reason to favor examinations over semester system is that it makes students ready for the future by making them learn important skills in life such as time management and effective planning. It is indispensable for an examinee to plan his schedule properly before the exams in order to complete the course efficiently. Another benefit of examinations is that a student who scores well in schools and colleges can get better job offers as it is mandatory to obtain a certain percentage of marks to sit in the placement interviews.
On the contrary, there are also certain merits of continuous assessment that should not be neglected. For instance, due to the semester system, the burden on students is reduced as they can study the whole syllabus in parts. They can learn from their mistakes in the previous semester and strive to improve them in the next. The overall grade of a student is also not affected as grading is done separately for each semester. This method of learning also increases awareness among the academicians as they begin to recognize their strengths and weaknesses.
Thus, in order to draw a conclusion, it can be said that examinations are necessary so that there can be overall development of the student. Nonetheless, the teachers should incorporate the best of both the methods while teaching so that students can perform better while enjoying learning.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, nonetheless, second, so, thus, well, while, for instance, such as, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1976.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 390.0 315.596192385 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06666666667 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85631818661 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523076923077 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 622.8 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 9.0 2.52805611222 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.534754152 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.777777778 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164430472804 0.244688304435 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.054034351512 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0379578817678 0.0667982634062 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0914658166942 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0323781855168 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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