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There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than through continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment?

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There is no doubt that it is important to consider how to evaluate students. In recent years, has been a growth of using exams to evaluate students in comparison with
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both benefits and drawbacks of using exams as a form of evaluation.
To begin
 with the positives, the main advantage of using exams to assess students is that you prepare them to
work
 under
pressure
.
This
 happens because students have only a few hours to prove their knowledge and ability in a specific subject. So that It is
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common
 getting nervous, anxious and insecure.
Besides
 that, to succeed in the exams, they
also
 have to deal well with their emotions and
work
 under
pressure
.
This
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in the workplace, It is required to have the ability to
work
 under
pressure
.
As a result
, exams prepare students better than continual
assessment
.
Nevertheless
, there are some drawbacks
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 using exams to assess students. One of the negative effects is that
this
 type of evaluation can commit more mistakes. To illustrate, If a student has been studying very well for the exams and feeling quite confident of his knowledge,
however
, a day before the exam, he got upset with his girlfriend which led him to do a terrible
assessment
 and not pass in the exam. In
this
 case, the exams could not measure his knowledge and ability properly as If he had been continuously assessed by the period of studying. To sum up, there are some benefits of using exams as a form of evaluation,
such
 as preparing students to
work
 under
pressure
,
although
 there are
also
 drawbacks like
commiting
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committing
 more mistakes and getting wrong marks, compared with continuous
assessment
.
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