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• It provides an opportunity for the examiner to test the learner in a realistic setting.
• Allows the examiner to observe and take individual performance in a task.
• Provides an opportunity to observe and test attitude and responsiveness of the learner to the total situation.
• Provides an opportunity to test students’ ability to bring together a number of different skills in a way which is difficult for a written test.
Disadvantages.
• Performance tests are expensive because one examiner can only examine a maximum of ten students per day.
• Performance tests cannot be used effectively for large groups.
• It can only test a small portion of the total syllabus.
• It lacks objectivity in marking because they suffer from intrusion of irrelevant factors.
• Well sufficient equipment is not available, performance test results in equal examination conditions thus making the comparison of the results invalid.
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