Undoubtedly, teaching and testing should be separate activities. Even testing should be modified based on types of learners. Yesterday I was conducting an assessment center for sales officers (26-35 years) and I realized most participants fared well during role plays, group discussions, case study discussions but fared poorly during written tests. While all the assessment activities were tests, only written tests were more formal where participants sat down with answer sheets and had a stopwatch monitoring time. I feel adult learners (non academic professionals) have a negative mindset when it comes to formal tests while they are chilled taking the same test but in a more informal manner.