Some people believe that exams are an unappropriate way of measuring students performance and should be replaced by continuous assessments. Do you agree or disagree?

There are many different kinds of appraisal methods are followed in schools and colleges.
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there are some people
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hink that using examinations to quantify the ability of learners is inappropriate so it is highly suggested to follow continuous assessment,
instead
. In my opinion, I totally against to implement ongoing appraisal process since
this
is time-consuming and high chances of failure to get an accurate result. The
first
and foremost reason is to not to consider continuous evaluation technique is an ineffective tool to evaluate students' ability is that it is not a standard procedure that can not be used national wide.
In other words
, since test papers are carefully prepared by pedagogical experts, authenticity is unquestionable.
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EET or JEE admission test, in
this
method, every student is evaluated under the same criteria, which has a minimum personal bias.
Therefore
, it is considered more effective than any other evaluating systems Another fact is that examinations are time-bounded.
This
means within a one or two hours the entire assessment will be completed.
However
,
on the other hand
, the continuous assessment,
this
is a - year-long process, which requires a great amount of time and effort, often results can be influenced by many external factors. Eventually,
this
has been often considered as unreliable. In conclusion, people have a different opinion on measuring students' academic performance through examinations and frequently argued to implement an ongoing evaluation process. I strongly disagree with
this
opinion since the method is slow and biased by many factors.
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