There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than continual assessments. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of final exams.

Education plays a pivotal role in the development of children. Nowadays it has becomes a debatable topic, whether to evaluate

youngsters

knowledge on the basis of periodic

exams

or on the basis of regular assessment.

This

essay intends to discuss both the pros and cons of

this

trend

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in subsequent paragraphs. On the one hand, there are many benefits associated with the trend of judging the capabilities of school goers by taking

exams

once a year.

Firstly

,

this

system gives an opportunity to pupils to get enough time to understand and learn the subject thoroughly. Due to

this

, they can perform excellently in

exams

and will

also

get admission to

a leading universities

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like AIIMS.A recent survey conducted by Oxford University reported that children lost their interest in the study by giving regular tests which adversely affect on learning capabilities of

youngsters

. Apart from

this

, it is not

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way to assess students skills but

also

enable the student to know their actual place at a national level.

This

creating positive competition.

On the other hand

, there are multiple factors that make conventional

exams

an outdated choice. In the

first

,place these tests are prone to increase stress levels in many individuals and affect the annual performance in

exams

that create a determinantal impact on the mental growth of

youngsters

.

For instance

, it has been observed that the suicide rate among

youngsters

increases during final

exams

owing to the fear of failure.

Moreover

, some school-goers are very good at cramming the topics

instead

of learning the basic concepts.

This

leads to an incomplete understanding of the topic which creating a hindrance for the overall knowledge of students. To conclude,

although

evaluating children through final

exams

is a good way of assessing, yet it's negative aspects in terms of losing precious lives and encouraging

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rote methods.

Hence

this

system should be made redundant.