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

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

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

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taught a day before, help

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

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, the examination conducted after few

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

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the lessons

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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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

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's abilities effectively.