Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answers.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answers.

Setting up a good mental base of a students is very important to succeed in life. There are many discussions about whether students should know concepts better or they should just know facts. Personally, I believe that it is of great importance for a kid to know ideas and concepts in contrast to just learning about facts. I feel this way for two reasons which I will explore in the following essay.

To begin with, the future of a bright student depends upon how thoroughly he knows the basics of anything he is studying about. If someone is planning to be a researcher or doctor one day, that kid’s though process should be such that he can think about varied approaches to reach a solution or discover something new. If a student has his concepts clear, than only they will be able to achieve this as to discover something or to invent sometime we need to know how things constituting that works. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. Ten years ago, when I was planning to appear for medical entrance exam, I was suggested by many of my relatives and friends that to clear the exam someone needs depth knowledge of basic concepts and new areas. As from childhood, I was more into understanding concepts rather than learning just the facts, I was confident that passing the exam will not be difficult if I concentrate on my studies a bit and learn about new areas in medicine. This example describes that why I believe that knowing concepts is more important. If my basic concepts would not have been clear, I would have faced difficulties in clearing the exam.

Secondly, a student who has his concepts clear will be more confident in his life. He knows what he is talking about or what he is going to look for. No one will be able to make fool of him. As a result, that person can easily reach heights in his personal and professional life. For instance, when my wife who has just finished her master in business administration, went for interviews for getting a job she was so confident in answering to the questions asked by interviewers that she got job offer at the same time. Due to her clarity of concepts, she was able to nail down each question with the appropriate answers which impressed the chairman of the company. This clearly depicts that concentration on learning the basics is more crucial than cramming things.

In conclusion, I am of the opinion that kids should know concepts better than they know facts. This is because it is important for making a career in scientific fields, and because it makes them confident in their life.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 34, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
Setting up a good mental base of a students is very important to succeed in life. T...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 362, Rule ID: COMMA_THAN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'then'?
Suggestion: then
...w. If a student has his concepts clear, than only they will be able to achieve this ...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, second, secondly, so, as to, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, talking about, as a result, in contrast to, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2135.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 457.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67177242888 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64791759981 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501094091904 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 642.6 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2795500613 48.9658058833 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.666666667 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7619047619 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.95238095238 5.45110844103 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227104629632 0.236089414692 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0706990168224 0.076458572812 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514613632279 0.0737576698707 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155141554789 0.150856017488 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0399378895915 0.0645574589148 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 10.9000537634 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 86.8835125448 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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