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

The situation currently has experienced the rise in the number of

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final

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as opposed to frequent assessments .

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.

To begin

with,final

exams

have an added advantage because they are given at the end of

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training in order to assess the level of understanding among the

students

following the given subject.To illustrate

this

,

learners

are able to put down to paper the knowledge and skills they have acquired through the given period of

time

.Another benefit

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is that

exams

saves

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on

the

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time

since they will be done once and for all meaning no need

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back and forth

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students

creating

time

to be with the examiners during the assessment;

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that ,

exams

are done upon the completion of units

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therefore

students

have the benefit of covering a wide range of topics

thus

increasing on the level of skills and experience.For

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instance

instances

, a recent study by the Kenyatta University

students

indicated the 82% of

students

delivered exemplary performance on

exams

compared to the frequent tests.

Thus

,

exams

provide a good avenue for testing

learners

knowledge and skills.

On the other hand

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not provide room for

students

to meet frequently with their teachers

this

is because examination

are

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given at the end of the course rather than frequently.

Moreover

,

students

tend to forget easily given that they are not

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reminded

remained

as often like in the case of

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assessment test

thus

chances of failing in examination is high.

Furthermore

,

exams

does

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not give

learners

time

to put into practice whatever they have learnt as practice makes perfect.As

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the

learners

come out half baked meaning they are not trained properly.

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that greater percentage of learner give

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exemplary

performance if they are tasked to

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assessments.

Therefore

, good performance

students

depends

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on the level

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they are subjected to. To conclude,examinations have the benefit of reducing the amount of

time

spent in learning

thus

giving

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for

students

to do a lot on their own.Whereas,on the flip side it denays the

students

the opportunity of interacting frequently.