There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment.

Examination play a major role to judge someone's ability. These days children have to undergo either the regular class tests or the periodical assessment. Both

kind

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kinds

of assessments

has

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have

its own benefits and drawbacks which will be discussed henceforth. Enumerating the pros of these examinations, the judgement of the two kinds

vary

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varies

. The daily tests could be beneficial to the

child

in revising the things easily without much hassle. The assessment of the lesson

that is

taught a day before, help

child

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children

the child

as well as the teacher to understand the strength and weakness.

However

, the examination conducted after few

month

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months

or

an

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a

year help

examine

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examines

the

child

's retaining ability. Because, it is very essential that the student remembers

lessons

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the lessons

taught in the beginning

for

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of

the life time.

This

clearly shows the importance of both the types. On the other side of the fence, both exam system has its own weaknesses as well.

Setting

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Citing

a paper and correcting them regularly could be cumbersome to the teacher who might want to indulge students in other

countries

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countries'

country

curricular activities.

Moreover

, overall performance of the student who fell sick or took a few days break would get affected adversely; on the same note periodical tests have proven to be more stressful

to

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for

child

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the child

a child

children

as it requires the revision of the whole syllabus at one go.

Nonetheless

, it is an apt process to judge someone's memorising

skills but

Accept comma addition

skills, but

will be biased towards students who are not good at performing in time constraint manner. Conclusively, examining of

various skills

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the various skills

of students could be done more thoroughly with the blend of both the kind of tests. Since, each system has

it's

of a thing, of it; possessive form of "it"

its

own issues, it is crucial to opt two of them to learn the

child

's abilities effectively.