Band 4+: Some people believe that exams are an inappropriate way of measuring students’ performance and should be replaced by continuous assessment. Do you agree or disagree with this view?

A segment of the population believes that traditional way of ratting students’ performance by the final exams ought to be changed and continuous reviewing should be taken into account. I completely agree with the statement because written exams are not the right way to judge the student’s performance instead of that they should be given chance for reviewing by others way like Lab, assignments and oral tests.

These days, examinations are mostly in the Writing format however, numerous pupils are not good at it and poor skill leading to the failure. To explain it, during exam days, undergrads are pressurized to remember whole syllabus to achieve passing score but many school students can not take this amount of stress which leads to the depression. For instance, CBSC examination bords reveled the data that 30% of medical students suffering from anxiety and 2% of them committed suicide because of exam tension. Hence, education organizations should change the traditional way of examinations and find the different way of grading the student performance.

In addition to this, exams should divide in the from of Lab, Assignments and oral test. To elaborate it, not only examinations mean of the results but also ratting of Laboratory presentations ought to be considered. Assignment and oral test also embark the scholar’s performance. Moreover, it helps them to sharpen their written and speaking skills. For example, Canadian educational institutions have changed the way of grading the exams and they have taken the same path as above mentioned because of that 40% of university results have increased. Therefore, grading should be divided into the different category in order to boost students’ confidence towards exams.

In conclusion, I rescript my opinion that, however, tradition way of examinations should not be ignored, to build the confidence towards exams, examination bord should change the way of grading the performance of the school students which strengthen the written and speaking skill moreover reduce the performance pressure of the students.