Many people believe that formal 'pen and paper' examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement. What is your view of examinations? Give the reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge experience.

Pen and paper exam is increasingly
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unpopular
popular
in some countries because of the belief that
this
is not the best way to assess educational achievements. In my view, I agree with
this
opinion for some reasons but
disgree
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disagree
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some points. On the one hand,
formal
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examination
was seem
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to
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in the majority of nations in the world because these parts considered it as the
first
choice to measure achievement.
Firstly
, some paper
tests
had good quality and ranged from basic to advanced level. In fact, people who passed these ones were hard-working and had a cool head to experience other
tests
and achieve other educational results.
In addition
, the formal-form test has brought awards in some fields of education so that students
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through
this
exam attained the rewards related to education.
For example
, an individual who was passing the offline IELTS test with
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score has taken other achievements
such
as English Olympic champion.
On the other hand
, pen-and-paper
tests
did not meet some criteria to be the ultimate method to assess performances in relation to education.
First
of all, some
tests
were assigned to one subject, which
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not suitable to estimate large-aspect educational attainment.
For instance
, the literature exam did not judge people who had mathematical
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but not pass
this
one.
Moreover
, educational accomplishments were extended to be in many areas that were gained without doing pen-paper
tests
. The musical talented composer Beethoven was a clear living proof, who have composed many famous symphonies that were recognised as educational contributions. To conclude, nowadays,
although
people's educational talent are measures
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a lot of ways in lieu of the
tests
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paper
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but
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these forms of
tests
are still playing
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and unchanged role. As
such
, they should be used suitably to obtain assessment completely.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • formal examinations
  • pen and paper
  • educational achievement
  • assess
  • standardized measure
  • knowledge and skills
  • develop skills
  • stressful
  • pressure
  • capture
  • abilities
  • potential
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