Some people think that exams are a good way of assessing a students level. Other people believe that they put unnecessary pressure on young learners and tell us very little about their ability.
Discuss both sides and give your own opinion.
As education systems develop and become more sophisticated, more attention is paid to how students perform in class. However, while some think that the best way to do this is testing, others feel that this causes only strain for young pupils.
On the one hand, supporters to formal exams say that there are a number of good arguments in favour of formal testing. Teachers today are under a lot of strain to prepare and execute effective lessons, which takes a lot of time. Being provided with exams could be a simple way of assessing the level of many students at the same time. Moreover, with class sizes increasing year upon year, it may be the only way that some teachers have of evaluating one particular student's abilities. Also, it is sometimes said that having standardised tests means that schools can compare their results and understand where improvements need to be made.
On the other hand, I side with those who feel that exams do very little other than cause stress. Children, especially young ones, develop at different rates, and giving a child a test at a very early age may cause them to be wrongly labelled as "poor" when actually they are simply less developed. This can have a detrimental effect that can last for the rest of the child's education life. Moreover, in my opinion, pupils often find being assessed such a traumatic experience that the results may show us nothing more than that people perform badly under pressure.
In conclusion, although exams are a quick way of assessing ability, I believe that they often wrongly label students as low-achievers. Therefore, on balance, I strongly believe that tests do not really tell us anything significant about the level of a child's learning.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 7.30460921844 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => 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: 1451.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95221843003 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66471388078 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587030716724 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.0075804631 49.4020404114 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.615384615 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5384615385 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.30769230769 7.06120827912 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.249991323845 0.244688304435 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0774107997155 0.084324248473 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573174133951 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144327826316 0.151304729494 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0529308442066 0.056905535591 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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