In the last 20 years, the assessment of students has undergone major transformation. Many educational institutions no longer use formal examination as a means of assessment as they believe formal examination results are an unfair indication of a student’s ability. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

To judge the
student
’s
ability
via formal
examination
has been deeply rooted in the world but in some
countries
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the concept has been changed and it is believed that
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of checking
students
ability
is unfair.
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essay agrees on the concept that knowing
student’s
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ability
with formal
examination
is not fair.
Further
, it will
also
highlight the benefit of informal
examination
styles in
student’s
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life giving
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the reasons that
formal
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way of checking
student
’s
ability
will just create anxiety and
students
will have very low self-esteem.
To begin
with, there has been a drastic change in educational institutions in
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20 years.
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number of education’s board believes that taking formal exams and asking
student
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to sit in an exam hall just makes
students
fearful which results in poor academic and impact
student
mental health.
For example
, many developing
countries
like Nepal still follow the pattern of formal
examination
believing that country will have highly qualified intelligent people. But every year there has been a case that 70%
students
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fail in those formal exams.
In addition
, formally examining the
student
’s
ability
has
also
resulted in
students
having really low self-esteem.
For instance
, there has been
a
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research comparing two
countries
where one follows the formal
examination
pattern and
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other
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assess their
students
differently. It is showed that
,
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those
students
who are examined via different assessment have got high
self esteem
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and have done really good with their life. Where
other
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student
who
are
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examined formally once in a year has
showed
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low
self esteem
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which resulted in
lack
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a lack
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of motivation in their life. In conclusion,
instead
of checking
student
’s
ability
with formal
examination
and pressurizing them, if all education institutions follow the pattern of accessing their
student
via different assessment, they will have
high
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number of qualified and intelligent people in their
countries
.
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