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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?

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In recent years, the approach of using exams to access students has risen in popularity over the alternative of the continual
assessment
.
This
 essay will highlight some of the benefits and the drawbacks that have resulted from
such
 an approach.
To begin
 with the positives, a
curicial
of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
crucial
 advantage of
examintaions
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
examinations
examination
 as a form of
assessment
 is that they leave little room for cheating.
This
 is because exams are
ususally
under normal conditions
usually
 undertaken in the presence of an invigilator whose job is to detect any student breaking the rules.
In contrast
, continual
assessment
 increases the risk of
plagirism
a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
plagiarism
 as these assessments are often completed with the help of the internet.
Besides
 reducing cheating, exams are time-efficient as they tend to only appear once or twice per year.
As a result
, they might free-up time for students to prepare and revise their syllabus.
Nevertheless
, exams as a form of assessments do
presents
Suggestion
present
 some drawbacks.
For instance
, even if
students
Suggestion
the students
 are very intelligent and creative, but when they put under high pressure, their minds may go blank. Considering
this
 intense pressure
,
Accept space
,
 the brightest of students perform poorly in the examinations. Another disadvantage is the narrow range of information which students test on. Unlike continual
assessment
, there is a small time window which limits the number of questions being asked, and
thus
this
 cannot test students' knowledge in full. In conclusion, despite the benefits that exams have in terms of
cutting cheating
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cutting, cheating
 and time-efficiency, there are some of the negatives where examinations put students under high pressure and
argubaly
as can be shown by argument
arguably
 not as thorough as the continual assessments.

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