Tests and examinations are a central feature of school systems in many countries.
Do you think the educational benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages?
Give reasons for your answer, and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Evaluation of students is an essential part of education. Tests and examinations are the most preferred methods in many countries. Even though there are other practices like checking the ability of a student in applying acquired knowledge in real life situations, and personal interviews, some people believe that the method of examination has educational benefits which outweigh its disadvantages. This argument is partially correct.
First of all, conducting an examination is comparatively easier for evaluation, as it is cost effective and time-saving. We know that interviewing every student to check whether they have learned things properly is a cumbersome task. In this aspect, tests prove to be more advantageous.
Secondly, tests also provide an impartial assessment of students, as there exists a common guideline for evaluation. Every test or examination will have a well-defined answer key which will help the teacher or evaluator to grant marks without being partial to students.
However, I cannot deny the fact that there are some disadvantages to this conventional system. There is a chance of by-hearting concepts and ideas and transferring them into the answer paper without complete understanding. Another serious issue is with the preparation of question papers. There are several reported incidents of question paper leakage across the world, and it is hard to prevent
To conclude, I don’t completely agree with the traditionally followed method of evaluation process. In fact, it requires suitable modifications with the help of advanced technology.
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1354.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 239.0 315.596192385 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.66527196653 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.20363070211 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20552341014 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.652719665272 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 62.3318963784 49.4020404114 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7142857143 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0714285714 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35714285714 7.06120827912 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.144077161754 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0452273979166 0.084324248473 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530503227269 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0676984754255 0.151304729494 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0472014184342 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 50.2224549098 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.31 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.1 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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