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

Over the

last

decade, educational teaching trends for

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changed significantly. It becomes

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access

students

through

exams

instead

of assessments. I will discuss more details about the advantages and disadvantages of

exams

in

this

essay. I believe that there are many advantages of

exams

as an assessment tool

to

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students

.

Firstly

, one

of

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a

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simple fact

that

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a student's ability can be seen through

exam's

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result

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. It can be said in another way that the

result

shows

what is

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the

weakness

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of

student

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in

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which

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.

For instance

, IELTS

exam

, people simply can judge the level of a student's English language ability by seeing their

result

.

Secondly

, an

exam

teaches the

students

that in order to get a good

result

,

a

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proper preparation time is needed. It is an important lesson which

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for our future.

By contrast

, many believe that there are many forms of tests that will be faced in life but those would not be exactly like a school

exam

. In some problems, teamwork and negotiation processes are required to solve certain problems.

Moreover

,

exams

provide only

a

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personal improvement. Those are not the only

accessing

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tool

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to judge

students

' abilities. It may lead to a negative effect and

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huge pressure on

students

' minds sometimes.

For example

, the

students

who accept that

exam's

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result

is a moment of truth to show their ability, sometimes even try

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suicide because of their

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outcome which is not the same as their expectation.

Furthermore

,

exams

, sometimes raise the morale of fear that the bad

result

determines the life of

students

.

This

is a totally wrong concept most people

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. There are plenty of examples to prove that some world-famous people had

been

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a

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poor

exam

result

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in their childhood.

To sum up

,

although

exams

are having

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both advantages and disadvantages, in some countries,

exams

are still popular and increasingly

using it

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as a form of

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assessment.