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.
In the current competitive society, grades have become a crucial indicator of people’s capability and education has become a tool to get better jobs rather than enlightenment. The prompt recommends that the quality of education is getting limited due to competition for high grades which is a debatable topic. In my opinion, I partially agree with the prompt for the following reasons.
The main purpose of education is to enlighten a person’s mind and open up to new dynamics of the world. But there is a huge class difference in society and success means achieving a high status for which education is required. Due to such competition, students are only interested in understanding the techniques of getting high grades rather than gaining knowledge. Nowadays, practical skills are getting neglected to just memorize and do well in exams. Instead of trying to understand why a topic is required in real life or how they can contribute to society by utilizing the learned knowledge, students just want to climb the so-called ladder of success by getting good grades. It’s not like good grades are not related to learning but many students don’t try to understand what are they learning rather they just memorize the topics. Learning should make a person knowledgeable and mature, due to such fierce competition students are only working hard and focused on getting good grades. They are not enjoying what are they learning instead getting bored and frustrated. This phenomenon is causing anxiety and depression in students at such a young age.
As students and their parents are obsessed with good marks, teachers are also losing their interest in teaching their students morality. For instance, in most schools, teachers only teach the assigned books and mark the important questions for students. They don’t try to interact with students to teach them something new or motivate them to learn life skills. Consequently, students are getting good grades but their personality and skill is not developing. They may be able to secure good positions in companies with their resumes but can do provide any great contributions. Even the teachers who want to develop their skills are shut down by the entire system. All of these are resulting in poor quality of education and generating individuals without any practical skills.
Furthermore, such a race to get good grades not only deprives students of gaining appropriate knowledge but also indulges them in corruption. The greed of the students and their parents to good grades leads them to buy question papers or do other immoral things that the students from a very young age lose the ability to correct judgment which is very alarming for society. For example, in the time of board exams, it has become very common for students to get the questions through some internal links a few hours before the exams which generates a huge number of students with good results but poor in skills.
Nevertheless, competition might be causing poor quality of education but eradicating competition from students would also harm them. Competition is necessary to keep the urge alive in an individual to do well. If there is no competition, there can’t be any progress. So, healthy competition must be established between students so that they can learn without the pressure of grades and also feel the urge to improve them.
In conclusion, Competition is necessary for a society to progress but it should be balanced so that students can run toward their goals meanwhile they should not forget to enjoy learning, developing practical skills and be a good human being. Maintaining healthy competition can expand the boundaries of learning resulting in a better education system. The need for learning should be seen in a new light and enable the student to learn and enlighten the world with their achievements.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 313, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to result'.
Suggestion: to result
...n can expand the boundaries of learning resulting in a better education system. The need ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, furthermore, if, may, nevertheless, so, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3233.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 633.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10742496051 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01592376844 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78755007578 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453396524487 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 984.6 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4232130011 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.482758621 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8275862069 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58620689655 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17512559712 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579373966184 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542498569286 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113276288204 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0483658383969 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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 6, column 313, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to result'.
Suggestion: to result
...n can expand the boundaries of learning resulting in a better education system. The need ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, furthermore, if, may, nevertheless, so, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3233.0 2235.4752809 145% => OK
No of words: 633.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10742496051 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01592376844 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78755007578 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453396524487 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 984.6 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4232130011 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.482758621 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8275862069 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.58620689655 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17512559712 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579373966184 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542498569286 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113276288204 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0483658383969 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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.