End-of-course exams designed to decide whether students progress to the next course are an example of which assessment type?

• A. Formal Assessment
• B. Facilitation
• C. Exploitation
• D. Extended Speaking

Answer: (A)

End-of-course exams that determine whether a student can move to the next course are formal assessments. They are planned and standardized evaluations with clear criteria and scoring rules, often conducted under controlled conditions, and the results are used to make a high-stakes decision about progression or qualification. This distinguishes them from activities that are more about guiding learning (facilitation) or from other unlikely or narrow category labels. Extended Speaking focuses on a specific modality within an assessment, not the overall type of evaluation used to decide advancement, and exploitation isn’t a standard category for this purpose.