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Do they really? As compared to any other system?

Tests seem to be the cheapest, timely (OCR-marked tests can be marked quickly) and most equitable (in comparative terms, not absolute terms) way to gauge people when you have a lot of them.

Any other methods increases cost and time, and introduces subjectivity, which creates issues of its own.




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