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

assessment

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

student

performance and it helps measure the growth of

student

, it involves the

student

writing

examination

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.

However continuous

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However, continuous

assessment

involves taking an

assessment

test at the end of each

week which

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week, which

is more adequate for a slow learner. With

assessment

it's easier for a child to prepare than

examination

, 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

of

assessment

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assessing

student

don't take it

serious

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seriously

and many fail, unlike the traditional

examination

. In my

opinion I

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opinion, I

think

traditional

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a traditional examination

examination

cannot be

overidden

rule against

overridden

overwritten

overdone

by continuous

assessment

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.