There seems to be an increasing trend towards assesing students through exams rather than continual assesment What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assesment

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There seems to be an increasing trend towards assesing students through exams rather than continual assesment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assesment.

Nowadays periodic exams is increasingly used amongst education insitutions around the world, as a result of shifting assesment from continual test. The examination brings advantages to students in providing a spare time to prepare and prevent negative emotions. However, the test has drawbacks for pupils.

Looking at the positive side, the examination help students to maximize the preparation before the test. Since the exam is accomplished annually, pupils have long period of time to study the materials to be assesed. By implementing this, the individuals have clear target to work forwards in order to understand the subject before final assesment. Additionally, the test is beneficial to control students’ emotion stability such as anxiety and acamedic stress. The reason behind this, the exam will not drive pupils into academic pressure due to a period of exams which taking place annually. Therefore, instead of assesing pupils in daily test, final exams may increase good grades and prevent stress amongst them.

Looking at the negative side, having annual assesment during an academic year brings several disadvantages. Firstly, the absence of daily feedback due to yearly marking test. This may lead to hard in identifying their weaknesses as well as its way of improvement. Secondly, the assesment might decrease students’ motivation as result of academic issues that have not been solved yet. Therefore, either students or teachers should be aware, as the test might drive students negatively. The consequences may damage their grades and interest during study in school.

In conculusion, as mentoring pupils’ academic performance and wellbeing in school is vital. The assesment is the key to answering these concerns.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, such as, as a result, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 24.0651302605 37% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1482.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 267.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55056179775 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8800889324 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.59925093633 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 460.8 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 11.0 2.52805611222 435% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.5451186967 49.4020404114 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 87.1764705882 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7058823529 20.7667163134 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52941176471 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.232371726753 0.244688304435 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0681277726701 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662655032044 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140959949245 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360473174884 0.056905535591 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 50.2224549098 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.61 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => 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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