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?

Universities are often under the society’s eye for a different set of reasons, one of them are ensuring students’ abilities are being assessed in a right way and on a correct basis.

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raises a question whether

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and ability should be examined only by formal tests or continuous assessments should

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be considered. In

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essay I will discuss these views and explain why I feel that continuous course

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and regular projects are crucial whilst evaluating students’ skills – not only because of consistent

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undertaken throughout the year which would show students’

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developed abilities to be adopted for long term. To start off, if we did not study throughout the year on a particular subject by doing various of continuous

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as group projects or assessments, we would have a poor understanding of what we are expected to know or be capable of and could face a miserable fail. To avoid

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situation, students in universities are being asked to participate in classes on a periodic basis and

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, being judged on their

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which is a fair evaluation in my view.

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, to gain a skill or learn something new takes practice. Students are not in universities to get a worthless paper, they are there to get the

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to be used in the long term, and for their future career, many would hope so. Research shows that if information is being memorized rather than understood keeps in our head for approximately only two weeks.

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another important fact, why students cannot be evaluated just by one final written or practical exam, whereas it can simply mean student learnt the subject

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and passed the exam while

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is not the right way to do it.

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enough, a good student who might have had a perfect midterm result, stressed out too much before the test and

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did not get a result which truly measured his or her abilities or expertise. To conclude, not only I believe that continuous assessments should be implemented in university levels, but

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and abilities of students should strictly be measured based on both, formal examinations at the end of the term and continuing

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undertaken by students which would show a true value of their understanding and skills obtained due to long-term value.