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

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In today’s world standardized testing is a controversial issue. Some people support that
exams
 are a fair method in order to check the
student
’s academic level, whilst others argue that they do not reflect
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real children’s possibilities. First and foremost, standardized testing
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student
 progress.
Exams
 can show
student
 improvement over time by taking the same tests over time.
In addition
 to
this
,
student
test
 scores can
also
 be easily compared to each other to show changes in progress.
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 older tests
students
 could achieve high grades and exceed their knowledge.
Consequently
,
exams
 force
students
 to revise and study even
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 the
last
 minute in order to pass the
test
.
Additionally
, another strong boon of examinations is that they are a metric for learning. The school gains a valuable metric so as to check the quality of its curriculum. With
exams
 created and given by an independent organization, standardized
test
 scores are useful because they come from a neutral source and give us data that we can compare to other independent schools across the globe.
On the other hand
,
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 testing is not without its critics.
Test
 scores can impact
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 confidence. It is easy to Interpret
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 score as the sole judgement of that
student
’s ability.
For example
, there are many cases where
students
 have demonstrated
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 understanding
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 a subject or concept through various assessments, but aren’t as skilled at taking
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 tests. Yet, it can be
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 for
students
 and
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 them to give up and not try their best to accomplish high grades.
Nevertheless
, there are several ways to evaluate
student
 learning without giving them a
test
. To clarify
this
, one of the aforementioned ways is
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. Presentations give
student
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 a different type of ownership over the content, literally presenting their knowledge and skills.
This
 assessment style requires
students
 to synthesize and focus on the most important elements.
Thus
,
students
 who struggle with examinations find
this
 alternative approach much easier and
as a result
 they thrive with
this
 method. Taking everything into account,
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 testing does help
students
 to strengthen their knowledge,
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 some extent, yet there is definitely room for improvement. It is understandable for
students
 to feel anxious sitting
exams
, because
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 some point they are, and that’s why changes should be done in the ways that
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 system
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students
 learning
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them
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 to be more optimistic and
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 hard to accomplish their goals in the foreseeable
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future
.
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