Put the examination at the end of the semester or separated small tests throughout the entire semester, which one do you agree?
Conducting examination at the end of the semester or separated small tests throughout the course was always a debatable topic. Many people state that putting the exams at the end of year will be beneficial to both students and schools. Others reject this notion and argue that separate exams should be conducted throughout the semester. In my opinion, I agree with separate small tests should be brought replacing semester exams. This essay would further elaborate both sides of the examination with justifying reasons and thus lead to a plausible conclusion.
To start with, examinations are conducted in schools or colleges to know how much knowledge student gained throughout the year in academics. Semesters which are conducted yearly once will provide an opportunity to students for continuous learning, feedback and a better paced understanding of the content. There will be more focused class interaction because of the continuous engagement between students and teachers. The main advantage of semester exams is that the performance would not be judged at the end of one year rather conducting examinations twice a year will help in regularly evaluating the students progress. For example, a semester system allows greater freedom, scope for designing and delivering a variety of courses that the students can pick flexibility to enhance the quality of their learning.
On the other hand, there are students and people who oppose semester system and demand for short time exams. Small tests are beneficial to students as they will come to know where they stand and they can try to improve those weak areas in next exam. Some students feel stress and will go to depression when they are going to attend semester exams that are conducted for every six months. For example, small tests will help students to divide the topics and content into small chunks and prepare for particular topic. In recent survey conducted by University of California, showed that out of 100 students participated 85 students opted for short term exams. This survey clearly shows us the advantage of short time exams and further the schools and governments has to work accordingly to change examinations from semester to short term.
According to the arguments aforementioned, one can reach out to point that conducting short term exams have good benefits to students both in terms of education and health. In a nutshell, it can be concluded that students will learn more when participated in short time exams.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, if, so, thus, as to, for example, in short, of course, in my opinion, to start with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.5418719212 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 6.10837438424 262% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 8.36945812808 203% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 5.94088669951 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 21.0 20.9802955665 100% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 31.9359605911 172% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2100.0 1207.87684729 174% => OK
No of words: 404.0 242.827586207 166% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19801980198 5.00649968141 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 3.92707691288 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74548135592 2.71678728327 101% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 139.433497537 146% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50495049505 0.580463131201 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 636.3 379.143842365 168% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 12.6551724138 142% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.7874888037 50.4703680194 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.666666667 104.977214359 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4444444444 20.9669160288 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.38888888889 7.25397266985 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 6.9802955665 172% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213253311967 0.242375264174 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0801967548327 0.0925447433944 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0883823095518 0.071462118173 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139661274589 0.151781067708 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11841158201 0.0609392437508 194% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 12.6369458128 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.1260098522 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 11.5310837438 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32886699507 99% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 55.0591133005 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.94827586207 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 58.5 Out of 90
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