ESSAY TYPE TEST: The traditional or essay type test continues to occupy an important pace among the testing techniques used by the class room teacher. The essay test refers to any written test that requires an examinee to write a sentence, a paragraph or longer passages and that demands a subjective judgment about its quality and completeness when it is scored. Essay questions should be used primarily for the measurement of those objectives, which can’t be, measured by objective type test items. Its main functions are as follows: - 1. It is used to rank the students tested in order of their total achievement in a given field of subject matter. 2. Examinations are conducted in order to discover the difficulties of the pupils. So that proper a...