Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Formal examination or course work | IELTS Writing Task 2


(Formal examination or course work)

Question:

Only formal examinations, written or practical, can give a clear picture of students’ true knowledge and ability at university level. Continuous assessment like course work and projects are poor measures of student ability.
How far do agree with this latter statement?

Answer:

Recently, the changing of evaluation methods for improving student’s ability at university level causes two different opinions. Traditionalists believe that an examination in class approaches the best analyzing the academic performance of students. Conversely, the evident shown by researchers reveals that, course work and projects support the comprehension of student’s ability.

At the first glance, students often feel an excessive fear when they have formal examination in the end of the term at a school. It means that students are encouraged for studying hardly in an extensive syllabus. This would cause amount of fear and stress throughout students. Taking an example in such the students in class circumstances, they are not able to perform to the best potential because of this type of assessment. Conversely, joining course work and projects as the regular assessment can assist to approach the exams in a relaxed way.

Secondly, it is firmly believed that formal examinations are purposed to test students’ memory while continuous assessments and project work can help students doing a huge number of research and discovering so much information by themselves. With the aim to test the creativity of student’s ability and performance, the second method is more efficient way than formal examinations. This means students do not have to follow all syllabuses at the end of the curriculum.

As far as I am concern, both course work and project works are far more effective with the aim to assess the comprehensive ability of students, similar to approach an examination that benefit for students.   

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