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Some people believe that exams are an inappropriate way of measuring students’ performance and should be replaced by continuous assessment. Do you agree or disagree with this view?

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These few years’ examination has become on way of
assessment
 of students’ performance and their performance in these exams is required to move students from one stage of their academic progression to the other. The majority of the academia has sole confidence in
this
 approach and it has become a standard and the norm.
Firstly
, I struggle to understand how a few hour exams can assess a
student
’s capability of an academic
work
 done for over a semester or a session. It is obvious that that
assessment
 will not be completely thorough. In every
course
, there are areas where
student
 could be better and some areas where they are weak.
However
, it means if a
student
 gets exam questions in his weak areas,
then
 the
student
 will not pass that
course
 and it is deemed that the
student
 has failed.
This
 kind of
assessment
 is one-sided and should not be the best approach for assessing a
student
’s understanding of the
course
.
Secondly
, in a situation where on the exam day the
student
 is either sick or psychologically disturbed
then
 it’s likely the
student
 might not perform well or either fail the
course
. In
this
 case the exam has not shown the ability of the
student
.
This
 buttress the saying that “that an examination is not the true test of a man’s knowledge".
Finally
, I strongly recommend a continuous
assessment
 of the
student
 over the period of the
course
work
,
this
 should include project
work
, group
work
, assignment and quiz. These are the best approaches to assessing a
student
’s performance.
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