well me is not sure about that but...
i remember when i was a kid (27em 27em
) its not the exams/quizzes/tests that worried me, its my parents' reactions that worried me....
Parents must think "oh we must be so great, we made our kids work hard for school! we're good parents!" well guess what, they aint
By the time IGs arrive, the kids would have been so used to the pressure put on exams they wouldn't care about them anymore, and when the IGs come, they would be trying to frustrate their parents and "torturing them back" than to get good grades
so yea the kids do need some sort of assessment to make sure they work, but the parents and teachers should remember that these tests are not make-or-break ones