Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student's performance. Continual assessment such as course work and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

It is often argued that tests

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a student's academic

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way more accurate than

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projects and assignments do. Personally, I agree with

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statement as I believe that exams do a better job in assessing

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performance

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than projects.

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, exams are

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produced by a manufacturing process

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under pressure which makes it a valuable

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measurement metric.

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, students are closely monitored and are asked to answer questions within a specific time.

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means that students should prepare for the exam beforehand and should be

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to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

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ready to tackle any type of questions from specified topics.

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, personally, I would put more hard work and effort for a

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that has examinations as a criteria to pass the

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than I would do for a

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that has

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projects as a criteria to pass.

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is why, I believe that all institutions should make it mandatory for learners to go through tests

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of projects as a way to

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their academic

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, in my opinion, while projects and assignments are necessary for learners, I do not think that they are a valuable metric to

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performance

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. To be more specific, assignments and projects require work to be done out of

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as researching online.

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, most students tend to get help from seniors who had already taken the

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or get involved in other kinds of plagiarism activities. One of my friends

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, passed his

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by having his final senior project done by one of his uncles. At the end of the

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, my friend jokingly said that he had managed to pass the

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knowing nothing about the content of the

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.

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is why I think that examinations should be included in a

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syllabus as projects alone will not be a valuable tool to

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students'

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. In conclusion, I firmly believe that tests should be a part of a subject syllabus.

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, exams are timed and should be done under pressure not knowing anything about the questions, which I think serves as a better tool for assessing

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performance

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, unlike exams, projects are done outside of the classroom and

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can lead to plagiarism.