Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
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 word "formal" signifies the appropriate method or process for performing some task,as per the accepted social convention.The word when prefixed to any other word in the English language,has an overall effect of restrainment.Formal manner is the best example of this as it is the acceptable manner in which a person is expected to behave in an official gathering rather than being himself. The word formal has the same restraining effect when prefixed to education. Indeed,formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
Formal education makes its students ...
- The following appeared as part of an article in a business magazine A recent study rating 300 male and female Mentian advertising executives according to the average number of hours they sleep per night showed an association between the amount of sleep th 60
- Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas wher 77
- The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Quiot Manufacturing."During the past year, Quiot Manufacturing had 30 percent more on-the-job accidents than at the nearby Panoply Industries plant, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than 75
- Claim: When planning courses, educators should take into account the interests and suggestions of their students.Reason: Students are more motivated to learn when they are interested in what they are studying.Write a response in which you discuss the exte 73
- Two years ago, radio station WCQP in Rockville decided to increase the number of call-in advice programs that it broadcast; since that time, its share of the radio audience in the Rockville listening area has increased significantly. Given WCQP's recent s 83
Sentence: Formal education makes its students study a number of concepts, facts and figures and tests thier proficiency of this knowledge through questions, which generally test the student's faculty of remembering these facts and a little on his ability to apply such concepts practically.
Error: thier Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: The student scoring higer marks is considered to be more formally educated.
Error: higer Suggestion: higher
Sentence: Once again proving that true enterpreneurs and innovators can develop even without formal education.
Error: enterpreneurs Suggestion: entrepreneurs
It is on top list:
http://www.testbig.com/essay-categories/gmatgre
Put a space after punctuation marks. E-rater is sensitive.
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 473 350
No. of Characters: 2361 1500
No. of Different Words: 248 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.664 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.992 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.632 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 181 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 129 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.938 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.273 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.309 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.529 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.116 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5