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

In recent years, It appears that more

exams

are being used to grade

students

instead

of continual

assessments

.Having

students

graded by

exams

may not be sufficient for the long term,

while

continual

assessments

can provide some help for the

students

, it might have significant disadvantages on the grading system. One of the advantages of assessing

students

with

exams

is to get the general

knowledge

and understanding of

students

. Since

exams

include a wide range of topics,

students

' brain activity will perform faster and more efficiently, which makes the

student

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information much faster.

This

will allow the educators to assess the

student

with a fair competition

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since the

exam

includes the same questions for all the

students

.

Furthermore

,

exams

will motivate

students

into studying

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and

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for an important

exam

more efficiently . Both

students

and educators can

also

benefit from assessing through

exams

, since it's being done to all

students

at the same time, it can be less

time consuming

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.

Although

assessments

through

exams

have potential advantages,

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might

also

include some significant disadvantages. Since

students

usually take the

exam

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same place together,

this

can cause some potential stress for

students

.

This

includes some external noise from other

students

which can cause some other

students

to lose focus from the

exam

. Which may lead to the

student

to lose time and forget the questions.

Moreover

.

exams

don't measure the exact

knowledge

of the

student

.

Students

do have their own creativity and external

knowledge

other than the specific topic of the

exam

. In conclusion,

while

assessing

students

with

exams

can have several advantages, they

also

come with significant disadvantages. Engaging

students

to get continual

assessments

as long as

exams

, could potentially be more advantageous than only focusing on a particular type of assessment.

This

will potentially help to gather general

knowledge

of

students

in 2 different assessment techniques.