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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?

#trend #students #exams #form
Over the
last
 decade, educational teaching trends for
students
has been
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 changed significantly. It becomes
to
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easier to
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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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is that
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 a student's ability can be seen through
exam's
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result
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results
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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
requires
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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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tools
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 to judge
students
' abilities. It may lead to a negative effect and
give
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put
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 huge pressure on
students
' minds sometimes.
For example
, the
students
 who accept that
exam's
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the 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
deteriorate
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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
believed
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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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results
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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
students'
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 assessment.
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