verb · academic
assess
UK/əˈses/US/əˈsɛs/as·SESS
Band 5-6task1task2speaking
to evaluate or judge the quality, value, or importance of something
Examples
“Teachers must assess students' progress at regular intervals.”
“It is difficult to assess the long-term effects of the policy.”
“The committee assessed the proposal and recommended revisions.”
Band 8 sentence
“Robust methodologies are essential to assess causality rather than mere correlation in longitudinal social research.”
Collocations
- assess the impact
- assess students' performance
- carry out an assessment
Word family
assess verbassessment nounassessor noun
Common mistakes
make assessment→make an assessment / carry out an assessment
to assess for→assess (something) / assess (someone) for (a purpose)
Say it for a higher band
5check→6judge→7+assess
Synonyms
evaluate
Easily confused
evaluate
“Before funding, the project proposal was carefully evaluated by experts.”
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