There seems 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?

Evaluation of students through exams or the continual assessments is appearing as a controversial debate in the current epoch, due to the rising number of students globally.

Therefore

,

this

escalating trend of evaluating pupil via exams as compared to continual assessment is associated with certain negative and positive aspects and

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essay w

ill put light

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will put a light

on both the sides of the coin. Admittedly, exams have always been related t

o be

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to being

the most common reason of tremendous amount of stress among the young students.

This

is largely because they are expected to give their utmost performance in a little period of time and on these bases, they are most likely to be judged during their career evaluation for j

ob

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a job

jobs

or

further

studies.

Moreover

,

such

scenario has resulted in giving birth to plethora of mental ailments among the younger p

opulation

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population, such

such

hypertension, personality disorders and neurological fluctuations. If

such

method of evaluation not amended,

then

the days are not far that governments would require to facilitate psychological clinics near the educational institutes.

Nevertheless

, despite of above mentioned drawbacks of the prevailing assessment

system

, irrefutably, exams still are considered as the one most effective and world widely recognized methodology to evaluate students since ancient times. They form the most adequate

system

to assess the theoretical knowledge of students from any field and to evaluate their understanding in relation to any subject. Ultimately, because of these reasons, children from very young ages are made familiar with

such

cardinal part of e

ducation

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the education system

system

. In conclusion, the current established

system

of evaluating knowledge might be p

rimitive but

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primitive, but

it still stands o

n

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at

the top,

although

due to the burgeoning number of students, competitive stress has inclined prodigiously,

as a result

of

this

g

overnments

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government

need to enact rapidly using t

ools

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the tools

of counselling or reducing syllabuses.