These 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 assesment?

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More students tend to be evaluated by tests
instead
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of
continous
continuing in time or space without interruption
continuous
assessment.
This
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essay will
first
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suggest that creating a competitive environment is the biggest advantage and students are likely to deal with
unecessary
not necessary
unnecessary
stress is a primary
diadvantage
the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
advantage
. On the one hand, assessing students' ability through exams makes the academic life more competitive as they make a lot of efforts to prove their knowledge. To elaborate, exams are same as competitions in which students with better preparation, hard-working process will get higher marks and
hence
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higher rank and others who do not work hard enough will achieve
bad
Suggestion
worse
results.
On the other hand
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, exams may lead to stress in a life of study. Students are put under pressure from their teachers and families because their abilities are measured through these tests.
As a result
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, the students are affected badly and lead to mental problems
such
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as autism, anxiety, etc. Vietnam is a prime example, every year at least 10 people try to commit suicide due to extreme educational life. In
conculsion
a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
conclusion
, using exams for evaluating students is a good option to foster their study,
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however too
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however, too
much pressure created by competitive environment has to be resolved to ensure not lead to any incidents.
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