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 debate on the issue of the importance of grades and the learning process has been a long standing argument in academic organizations. Professors and scientists advocate that the quality of learning process should be given primary importance over ‘trivial’ matters like grades and GPAs. In my opinion, I mostly agree with the assertion that competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning for the following three reasons.
To begin, the main objective of education should always be to impart knowledge and generate a sense of curiosity within the students. Education at its core should be a tool to shape erudite citizens out of young students. It should be able to nurture the young minds and their ideas. For example, some of the brightest minds of the century like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, never really cared about grades as such. They were so devoted in acquiring knowledge that they had no interest in scoring high grades. As there was no burden of competition for grades, they were able to focus on their research and other academic endeavors.
Moreover, high grades should be considered as a secondary result of success rather than the exclusive objective. The students who are chasing higher grades should not do so, at the cost of learning. When a student is prolific in her studies and focus more on the learning aspect, good grades are sure to follow. As such students are able to grasp the subtle nuances of the subject, they are easily able to ace the exams without worrying much about the competition. Even if they do not get good grades, they are so satisfied with their learning process, that getting average grades does not bother them much.
In contrast, some might argue that students are chasing higher grades due to the increased competition. In the contemporary times, high grades have become necessary to get admissions into reputed colleges and GPAs have become the central dogma to sort out applicants. Thus, it is obvious that some students compromise on the learning part and focus on getting higher grades. For example, the cutoff scores for Ivy league universities are so high, that it forces student who dream of attending such colleges, to isolate them from the learning process and focus more on getting very high grades.
To summarize, I believe that the main objective of education at all levels should be to impart knowledge and improve the learning experience of the students. Grades should not be thought of as an exclusive metric to judge any student. But on the other hand in some cases, competition for higher grades is healthy as long as there is no compromise on the learning process as this healthy competition does force the students to study more and thus leads to their holistic development.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, moreover, really, second, so, thus, for example, in contrast, in my opinion, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2316.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 466.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96995708155 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59785375818 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472103004292 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 724.5 704.065955056 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3844255677 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.8 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.9 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178284248186 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0554405674539 0.0831039109588 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0516639860757 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117062428162 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0525225115648 0.0667264976115 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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