These days, there is an ongoing debate among people about formal written examinations and its legibility to test the knowledge at school. While it is possible to claim that having practical knowledge more important; however, many people believe formal written exams are essential to grade a student at the school. In this essay, I shall explain both positive and negative impacts of written examinations followed by a rational conclusion.
At the outset, there are many reasons why written exams act as a traditional method of assessing knowledge at school. One of them is that it’s been there for centuries and only accepted method of formal knowledge testing method. Moreover, some students tend to comfortable sitting for a formal exam than a practical test. Despite the fact that practical exams involve teamwork, formal written exams are more of an individual test. For an instance, based on an article published by a world-leading education researcher, it is revealed that formal examinations require more practice than a practical exam. Yet, more teachers prefer to hold written exams.
Nonetheless, those who argue for written exams, have a different view and say that the practical exams provide real-life exposure. With respect to leading research conducted at Harvard University, it is revealed that practical assessing methods are much effective than traditional written exams. Therefore, it is advisable to adopt practical exams in school syllabus.
While there are strong arguments to support both sides of the case, but my personal opinion is formal written examinations have less importance when it comes to accessing knowledge at school. I would strongly recommend teachers to adopt practical exams to strengthen soft skills of students.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, moreover, nonetheless, so, then, therefore, while, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.5418719212 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 6.10837438424 33% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 8.36945812808 60% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 5.94088669951 135% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 31.9359605911 103% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.75862068966 52% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1497.0 1207.87684729 124% => OK
No of words: 274.0 242.827586207 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46350364964 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8312630401 2.71678728327 104% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 139.433497537 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554744525547 0.580463131201 96% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 379.143842365 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.6157635468 152% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.4746754262 50.4703680194 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.928571429 104.977214359 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 20.9669160288 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.25397266985 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.33497536946 56% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0912653763293 0.242375264174 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0387867171342 0.0925447433944 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0251629825009 0.071462118173 35% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0605156908434 0.151781067708 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0209245138496 0.0609392437508 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 12.6369458128 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 11.5310837438 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.32886699507 111% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 55.0591133005 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.94827586207 111% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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