The current trend in education is to move away from traditional exams and instead have continuous assessment over the school year. What do you think of this trend?

Sometimes one begins to ponder how convenient is It to move away from traditional exams to continuous

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? It is expedient to know that traditional exams are the most common way of assessing

student

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performance and it helps measure the growth of

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, it involves the

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writing

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of each subject at the end of the term. While it helps a child to revisit past topics that was taught at the beginning of the

term it

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term, it

may appear stressful for a slow learner due to large volume of work to study. I remember as child in secondary school year, exam period brings shivers and sometimes sickness.

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However, continuous

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involves taking an

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test at the end of each

week which

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week, which

is more adequate for a slow learner. With

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it's easier for a child to prepare than

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, It's easier for teachers to know

were

In or at or to what place

where

pupils lag. Due to

easy nature

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the easy nature

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assessing

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don't take it

serious

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seriously

and many fail, unlike the traditional

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. In my

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opinion, I

think

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a traditional examination

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cannot be

overidden

rule against

overridden

overwritten

overdone

by continuous

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because it's the

bench mark

a standard by which something can be measured or judged

benchmark

of

perfomance

a dramatic or musical entertainment

performance

performances

across the world and have been used as

basis

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the basis

a basis

for transfer across schools.