Do you think that formal written examination are a good way to assess knowledge at school.

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Do you think that formal written examination are a good way to assess knowledge at school.

These days, it has become a growing trend for schools to access knowledge by taking formal written exams. As such, there are both merits and demerits to this trend, although I am of the opinion that the former outdo the latter.

There is a myriad of arguments in favor of my stance. The most conspicuous one is that in order to examine the learning skills of students from reading to writing and speaking to listening, it is very important to conduct routine examinations procedures to ensure student's learning skills are successful. Not only can exams help in ensuring the learning skills, but it can also enhance the confidence level of students.

There are, however, some pitfalls that can easily overwhelm the potential benefits of formal written examination. The primary one stems from the fact that by cheating in exams, students can easily achieve higher grades. Besides, by formal written examination procedures, one can not decide the competency level of any student as it is not an effective procedure all the time. For instance, if student is require to enter in University for higher studies, it is mandatory to pass the exam to get admission in University, if student cheats and pass the exam, it is not fair with other students.

In view of the above outlined arguments, one can conclude that the benefits of formal written examination are indeed too great to ignore.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 405, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'required'.
Suggestion: required
...l the time. For instance, if student is require to enter in University for higher studi...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 413, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'entering'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: entering
...me. For instance, if student is require to enter in University for higher studies, it is...
^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, so, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 8.36945812808 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 31.9359605911 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.75862068966 104% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1158.0 1207.87684729 96% => OK
No of words: 233.0 242.827586207 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96995708155 5.00649968141 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.90696013833 3.92707691288 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65744612935 2.71678728327 98% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 139.433497537 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575107296137 0.580463131201 99% => OK
syllable_count: 371.7 379.143842365 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.6157635468 108% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.71428571429 233% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 12.6551724138 79% => 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: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5883687245 50.4703680194 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.8 104.977214359 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3 20.9669160288 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9 7.25397266985 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.138608892969 0.242375264174 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0585256976772 0.0925447433944 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667971385495 0.071462118173 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0936274561448 0.151781067708 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0367408722992 0.0609392437508 60% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 12.6369458128 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.1260098522 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.9458128079 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 11.5310837438 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.11 8.32886699507 109% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 55.0591133005 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.94827586207 106% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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