Do you think formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school ?
The idea of a formal written examination in gauging students performance is a widely debated topic. There is a widespread worry, these exams are inefficient to check the
student's knowledge. In my view, this apprehension is warranted and merits serious consideration.
There are myriad of arguments in favor of my viewpoint. The most conspicuous one is that these exams create unnecessary pressure on students life. Not only students
have to study with the burden of exams, but it also discourages them to have an in-depth understanding of the subject. This will result in students not able to handle future
demands, broaden their horizon and skills required to have success in their career. For example, if Albert Einstein had studied with these undue pressures, he may not have made a
number of innovations as in the scientific field and others.
Another pivotal aspect of the argument is that these exams have repeated questions and patterns, so anyone with access to past year papers will be able to score well.
It allows mediocre students to score as well as the prodigy one. It means that these exams do not check students skill and analytics but checks how well one can memorize. Hence
it is apparent these stereotyped exams have flaws in calculating students performance and knowledge.
In view of the arguments above, one can conclude that the flaws in these stereotyped written exams are too dire to ignore. I am inclined to believe that these exams hamper
students to acquire a wealth of knowledge and have success in their life.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, well, for example, as well as, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.5418719212 95% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 6.10837438424 82% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 8.36945812808 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 20.9802955665 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.75862068966 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1331.0 1207.87684729 110% => OK
No of words: 258.0 242.827586207 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15891472868 5.00649968141 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 3.92707691288 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72293097668 2.71678728327 100% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 139.433497537 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554263565891 0.580463131201 95% => OK
syllable_count: 410.4 379.143842365 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.6157635468 173% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
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: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4447210485 50.4703680194 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.384615385 104.977214359 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8461538462 20.9669160288 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53846153846 7.25397266985 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 11.0 4.12807881773 266% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 11.0 5.33497536946 206% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 6.9802955665 43% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 2.75862068966 290% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0460713207974 0.242375264174 19% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0215044953971 0.0925447433944 23% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0433800692727 0.071462118173 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0214205025369 0.151781067708 14% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0365883236771 0.0609392437508 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 12.6369458128 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.1260098522 98% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.9458128079 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 11.5310837438 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32886699507 106% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 55.0591133005 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.94827586207 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 11.1111111111 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 10.0 Out of 90
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