There seems to be increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather tah than Continual assessments. What are advantages and disadvantage?
Education is the utmost need of the contemporary era, so every individual is supposed to struggle to get enlightenment. But it's a major concern how to evaluate
students
to promote them in the next class and it is becoming ubiquitous all around the world to assess pupils through an annual exam system rather than a continual assessment. Annual evaluation via exams
has certain benefits as it aids in making a merit of students
and helps students
to choose a subject
for further
studies but there will also
be some drawbacks.
One evident benefit of annual exams
is that it would enable schools, colleges and universities to form merit of students
. While
there is tough competition among students
to get admission to reputed institutes, every educational institute grants admissions to students
according to
their merit. So students
who yearn to prove themselves as extraordinary, struggle and perform better in their studies. Undoubtedly, hard-working children get higher marks
. Therefore
, the only way to assess the ability of students
is through the marks
and grades, they get in their annual exams
. Another reason that exams
would be advantageous is that they would assist pedagogues and parents in assessing the basic interests of the students
. Although
exams
include all subjects, that's fresher has been studying throughout a year, in one subject
graduate would perform well and would definitely get distinguishable marks
as compared to other subjects, obviously it must be a favourite subject
of the pupil. In that way, guardians and teachers could counsel them to choose that subject
for further
studies. For instance
, if a student gets more marks
in mathematics in matriculation would definitely choose F. Sc pre-engineering.
On the other hand
, there are obvious disadvantages of evaluation systems by exams
. Firstly
, it would be an injustice to judge the students
by some selected questions from the whole syllabus. And what if a student who worked hard throughout the year and performed very well, but gets sick during the exams
or unfortunately met a serious road accident? This
plight may deteriorate their whole year. Secondly
, exam marks
may be sometimes misleading if students
cheat during exams
. Dull students
fail to prepare for exams
so they resort to cheating during exams
and by using dishonest means success to get higher marks
would be heartbreaking for other students
.
The points I have hitherto considered lead us to conclude
that while
there are plus points for having an annual or semester examination system, too much would be lost as a result
. So to evaluate students
for next class promotion both continual assessment and exams
should be considered.Submitted by jaspreet on
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