Some people believe that exams are an inappropriate way of measuring students performance and should be replaced by continuous assessment. Do you agree or disagree with this view?

School examinations are perceived by some people to be less appropriate in terms of measuring

students

' academic

progress

than a continuous appraisal.

This

essay agrees with the

second

statement for some reasons

such

as exams do not represent the whole curriculum throughout the year while the progressive ranking is more suitable to track pupils' understanding of subjects.

To begin

with, tests could not represent the whole year's learning

progress

and were rather prone to cheating despite the easiness to do and rank.

First

of all, the activity is oftentimes conducted in a short period of time

hence

losing the capability to contain all the materials learnt in a year.

Besides

, all lessons getting packed into just a few days is a real challenge for

students

,

thus

leading to

instinct

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to cheat in order to pass the bar.

As a result

, the phenomenon of cheating at schools increases while the capability to measure pupils' brains decreases. On the other side, continuous assessment is a better option to track class audiences' improvement since the learning curve is not invariably linear to the point it can not be judged in one day.

Moreover

, the

progress

is usually fluctuating based on the ongoing subjects and

students

' performance,

thus

such

assessment is more representative to acknowledge

students

' academic value.

For instance

, weekly tasks and quizzes are now popular amongst teachers in order to assess the kids' performance. In a nutshell, exams can be one way to assess

students

but not the only way to do so since the lack of compatibility to the whole study, and at the of the day, progressive assessment is more accurate in tracking kids learning

progress

at school.