Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education-
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The author asserts that competition for achieving higher grades hinders quality learning. In my opinion due to the recent surge in competition at all levels of academic studies, students are motivated to study hard, so that they are not left behind their peers. The drive to achieve higher grades necessiates quality learning which students have to fulfil indispensably.
Compared to pre-modern society, in general people today are better able to finance their children's education. Economic and social growth have provided many children all the necessary infrastructure needed to make them s...
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Sentence: The drive to achieve higher grades necessiates quality learning which students have to fulfil indispensably.
Error: necessiates Suggestion: necessitates
Error: fulfil Suggestion: fulfill
Sentence: The enlarged pool of talented people available has raised the minimum standard requirements of admission to any presitigous university.
Error: presitigous Suggestion: prestigious
Sentence: Further, teachers are more focused on imparting knowledge necessary to achieve minimum grades and are not disposed towards expalining relevant concepts or additional details beyond textbook learning.
Error: expalining Suggestion: explaining
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 423 350
No. of Characters: 2327 1500
No. of Different Words: 227 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.535 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.501 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.826 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 198 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 159 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 113 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.143 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.143 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.508 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5