Tests and examinations are a central feature of school systems in many countries.
Do you think the educational benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages?
Education quality is considered as the most important factor to be focused on with all levels in any school system. One of common ways for schools to bring high educational value for students is to test or check students by examinations and the teachers can see how effective their teaching methods are. Despite some obvious disadvantages of this trend, I would argue that those are overweighed by the advantages.
On the one hand, there are two major drawbacks when the tests are used to check how much the students understand the knowledge they studied. Firstly, it will put a huge pressure on students if they want to achieve excellent marks. It is believed by almost students that there should be another way of testing which is less stressful than the traditional exams, in which they are normally required write down all the knowledge under time pressure. Moreover, the stress that students suffer from before taking the exams might lead to the several harmful consequences that is disastrous for their health, for example, smoke addiction and alcoholic. Secondly, it is the marking system that might discourage students by thinking that the results are very often not relevant to their efforts they put into studying. In some universities in Vietnam, it is impossible for students to know why their answers are incorrect since the marked test are not returned to students. This might result in less studying motivation since the grades are often regarded to be unfair.
On the other hand, I believe that the benefits are more significant than such disadvantages. One reason for this opinion is that teachers would have an overall view on the students’ ability to absorb the knowledge that they transmitted by asking questions with different level of understanding in the exam, hence improve their teaching methods which helps students understand more thoroughly. Another reason is that taking exams in schools will help students feel more familiar with those tests they might face with in the future, especially when they apply for a job in such big corporations. Preparing for the exams means that students are revising, practicing and therefore trying to remember the knowledge they learned. In addition, those questions in school exams are the basic knowledge in professional employment tests in several companies. Hence, they might be more confident when applying for a job, since the questions asked in the test are based on what they learned at schools before.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the advantages of applying exams to check students’ understanding are more significant that the disadvantages.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-23 | Arden Nguyen | 11 | view |
| 2019-11-05 | cindycornelia98 | 56 | view |
| 2019-10-18 | ndlinh3198 | 67 | view |
| 2019-07-09 | Sreeveni Das | 56 | view |
| 2015-02-10 | keerthibattula4 | 60 | view |
- Tests and examinations are a central feature of school systems in many countries.Do you think the educational benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages? 67
- Many people are afraid of leaving house because of crime. Some think more action should be taken to prevent crime, but others think little can be done. What is your view? 67
- Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for governments to make it legal requirement.To what extent do you think the laws are needed to make people recycle more of their wa 73
- Chemicals tests on animals 67
- Summarize and compare the percentages of British students 67
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 618, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'exams'' or 'exam's'?
Suggestion: exams'; exam's
...uch big corporations. Preparing for the exams means that students are revising, pract...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, in addition, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 13.1623246493 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 7.30460921844 260% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 42.0 24.0651302605 175% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2213.0 1615.20841683 137% => OK
No of words: 427.0 315.596192385 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18266978923 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80840099473 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505854800937 0.561755894193 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 669.6 506.74238477 132% => 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: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.341363294 49.4020404114 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.176470588 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1176470588 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.52941176471 7.06120827912 107% => 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 : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130594664725 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.049128907384 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452975628526 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0858528554544 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0678187852147 0.056905535591 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.