Some people believe that competition for high grades motivates students to excel
in the classroom. Others believe that such competition seriously limits the quality
of real learning.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own
position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and
supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
In today's competitive world it is important to have a competitive nature. A healthy competition can help students excel in the classroom, but an unhealthy competition can distract students from real learning. Thus, the prompt provides us with the controversial topic that whether the competition motivates students to excel or limit the quality of real learning. I mostly agree with the view that competition for high grades motivates students to excel in the classroom for the following two reasons, but I do concede, that if the competition becomes unhealthy it can limit the quality of real learning.
First of all, the competition motivates students to learn more effectively. The competition for high grades helps the students to set a target, it also motivates students to study harder than others. For example, the students who compete for high grades study more for few extra marks so that they can excel in the class, however, the students that do not compete for higher grades study only to pass the exams. If the student does not compete to get higher grades, then he or she tend to lack motivation and are not able to excel in their class. Therefore, it is necessary that students should compete for higher grades in healthy manner to improve their performance.
Furthermore, education systems also promote competitive environment, it ensures that the students work hard and learn more. This helps students to cope up with the curriculum that they learn in higher studies. For example, the standardized tests provide students with percentile, that denotes the number of students ahead and behind a particular student. These percentiles motivate students to learn with perseverance. The competition to get the highest percentiles can motivate students to practice more questions and learn the concepts more deeply. Hence, the students should pursue high grade to excel.
However, I do admit that unhealthy competition can limit the quality of real learning, the student focus will shift from learning to only scoring higher grades than other students. For example, a student who learns only to score higher grades and does not understand the concepts will face problem in the future. Although, a person learning the concepts but scoring relatively low will be more successful. The fundamentals play a major role in learning, and the students that ignore the fundamentals and just focus on grades are likely to face problems as the subjects become more complex and tedious. Thus, competition which limits the quality of real learning should be avoided by the students.
In conclusion, I do agree that competition for high grades motivates students to excel in the classroom for the two-reason outlined above. But I do concede that unhealthy competition can distract a student from the main focus that is learning.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 482, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'tends'.
Suggestion: tends
...te to get higher grades, then he or she tend to lack motivation and are not able to ...
^^^^
Line 9, column 216, Rule ID: MAIN_FOCUS[1]
Message: Use simply 'focus'.
Suggestion: focus
...etition can distract a student from the main focus that is learning.
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, then, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.5258426966 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2381.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 457.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21006564551 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78739232886 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 215.323595506 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.407002188184 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 723.6 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8038813111 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.227272727 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7727272727 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.36363636364 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.401730191274 0.243740707755 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155375420687 0.0831039109588 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0759360123184 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261306135747 0.150359130593 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0512344077467 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 482, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'tends'.
Suggestion: tends
...te to get higher grades, then he or she tend to lack motivation and are not able to ...
^^^^
Line 9, column 216, Rule ID: MAIN_FOCUS[1]
Message: Use simply 'focus'.
Suggestion: focus
...etition can distract a student from the main focus that is learning.
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, then, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.5258426966 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2381.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 457.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21006564551 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78739232886 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 215.323595506 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.407002188184 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 723.6 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8038813111 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.227272727 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7727272727 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.36363636364 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.401730191274 0.243740707755 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.155375420687 0.0831039109588 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0759360123184 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261306135747 0.150359130593 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0512344077467 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.