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

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Evaluating
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teaching and learning. In the past, continual assessments are the most effective part of the evaluation process of
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, the ever-increasing tendency of taking
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sometimes surpasses the popularity of continual assessment. The
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benefits and drawbacks and
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with, in every teaching ,process
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have to show what they have achieved through
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learning. There are numerous ways to prove their capability and taking
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is the most important one despite
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both
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advantages and disadvantages. First and foremost, taking the
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is the most effective and creative way of assessing
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,
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can sit for an
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after a certain period of the lesson to assess themselves.
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,
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,
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they can find out their weaknesses and problems and
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concentrate to solve
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In addition
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, there is a chance of supplementary
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which help failed
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to sit for another
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and succeed. There are some negative sides to
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and the most prominent one is sometimes it fails to evaluate the weakness of
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. The very old process of questioning and answering in the
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sometimes lacks the effectiveness of evaluation.
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, the calibre of
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is not properly evaluated. Another problem is that sometimes only passing
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can become the only focus of
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rather than earning knowledge. That's why the principal aim of education is somehow ignored.
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,
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in some cases grow the tendency to
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unfair means in the
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which can not be appreciated. Taking
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have
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demerits and merits. But if the merits can outweigh the demerits,
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should the taken.
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