Historically, schools in the US have borrowed the European system of school organization, a system that separates students into grades by chronological age. In general, children begin formal schooling at the age of six in what is referred to as the first

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Historically, schools in the US have borrowed the European system of school organization, a system that separates students into grades by chronological age. In general, children begin formal schooling at the age of six in what is referred to as the first grade. For the most part, students progress through twelve grades; however, some students who do not meet minimum requirements for a particular grade may be asked to repeat the year.

Graded schools are divided into primary grades, intermediate grades, and secondary grades. Primary education includes grades 1 through 5 or 6, and may also provide kindergarten as a preparation for first grade. Referred to as elementary school, these grades are usually taught by one teacher in a self-contained classroom. Intermediate grades begin with grade 6 or 7 and offer three years of instruction. At this level, teams of teachers may collaborate to provide subject-based classes similar to those offered in high school. Viewed as a preparation for high school, intermediate education is known as junior high school. At grade 9 or 10, secondary school begins. Classes taught by subject specialists usually last about fifty minutes to allow a student ten minutes to move to the next class before it begins at the top of the hour. At the end of twelve successful grades of instruction, students are eligible for a secondary school diploma, more commonly called a high school diploma.

Summarize the main points in the lecture, explain how they cast doubt on the ideas in the reading passage.

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The reading passage describes a current model of school organization of the United states of America. The lecturer avers that this system has several grave problems and the main one is that it pays no attention to student's differences.

Firstly, the passage asserts that when a person reaches age of six, he or she have to go to a primary school. It is believed that a kindergarten prepares future students to school, however, the professor claims that each student has one's own specific features and, for instance, one person can start educational process at earlier age than others. Consequently, although all students have approximately the same age when they begin education, their readiness for studying is not equal.

Furthermore, the distinction among students may have distinct nature: metal, physical and social. What is more, even if we assume that all students were initially equal to each other, they nevertheless would be divided in the future by their development as well. And the distinction between boys and girls at school is a good example.

Moreover, the speaker states that each student has specific learning characteristics as well. In fact, we have a problem that when one student who is able to absorb information easily and quicker has learnt a studied material, the second student who cannot learn new data swiftly requires repeating the material. As a result, we face a problem if we repeat the material, the first student may lose interest to subject; and if we do not do it, the second student will not absorb the theme.

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he or she have to go to a primary school.
he or she has to go to a primary school.

Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 25 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 12
No. of Words: 258 250
No. of Characters: 1259 1200
No. of Different Words: 153 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.008 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.88 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.682 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 21 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.189 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.361 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.632 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4

Hello. Thank you for you attention to my essays.
I have a question: may you say what ETS's readers expect to see in a good intergrated essay?
I assume that paying much attention to reading passage is meaningless because it is available, however, how much information should I write about the audio?
Finally, will I be punished in case I accidently add some new information which was not stated?
Thank you.
P.s. I ask your opinion about those questions because ETS's gives only ambiguous explanations of their requirement to essays and I know that with your experience you may give important hints.

The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3

Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%) but more content wanted from the lecture (75%).

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Yes, there will be a penalty if you put something new. and it is serious.