Examination is the best way to test academic excellence among studemts

My opponent has stated that academic excellence is "knowledge acquired on books rather than on practical skills and experience". Clearly, my opponent doesn't understand that you can get ideas from books. Various genres of books exist. As my opponent may respond by stating, "Not all genres of books have to do with academics. Textbooks are the books that do with academics." I here have to mention that there are a variety of subjects that have to do with academics. This debate never mentioned what level of learning, or what subjects they are including in academics. Most people would limit themselves to math, science, English, geography and history. There are many more subjects that have to do with academics. Foreign language is one of the subjects that enhances creativity or knowledge about culture, which can vary from knowledge about history, traditions, food, or future about a culture related to the language. In this way examination may not assess all sides of knowledge that a foreign language, categorised within academics has to offer. Many examinations will have a one sided approach. If the foreign language was Japanese, many examinations will simply focus on verbs and grammar. Observing students' everyday participation in class, will give you an overview of Japanese speaking, grammar, information about culture, history, karate, and other knowledge they have remembered since Japanese class. This doesn't necessarily associate with intelligence, because knowing history about Japan isn't necessarily going to help you in the future, or give you any ideas alone. But you can get ideas if you perceive the information in such a way. This is academic intelligence, it has nothing to do with experience, as the information which was perceived was gotten from a textbook. So in such a case, this type of observing may provide you a more accurate display of students' academic excellence. Secondly, my opponent thinks that simply having good academic intelligence can give you success. Forgetting EQ won't do. You can't achieve success if you don't know how to show your ideas. Observing participation in a class, will train students for success in a way which will solve possible future issues. IQ alone won't help. As concluded, again observing participation in class, creative intelligence, and letting students learn what they want to learn, also known as "electives", will do much more for students' future success than any examination. It's not that the students might cheat. Students overall may get nervous before an academic examination, since it's called an examination. If a person knows that someone is watching them, the person mentally would be stressed out, and therefore won't be able to focus. If a person doesn't know that they are occasionally watched, their true attitude towards work will be revealed, and the more responsible people would present their 100% potential work to the desk. This means, instead of stressing students out for reasonable work, letting them relax and observing them, would help them do better work. Kind of how they have created a new system to kill cows for beef. The cows are calm, as they are lead, until they drown. It's a stress-free death with less rambunctious cows. This way of killing cows for beef, is easier for the cows, and others. So that clears how scaring the students has strongly negative effects. For what happened in Ghana, if you'd just observe the students everyday, you'd be able to easily infer that they don't have great communication skills and most of them have lower level English based on standards. Overall, there are many other ways to test academic excellence, than the competent, and brain-wrecking way, called examination.