The premise that competition for high grades at all levels of education seriously limits the quality of learning does not always remain true. I can indicate two points; in-depth study and enhancement in the quality of learning materials, the consequences of competition for high grades, enhance the quality of learning.
First of all, competition for high grades causes students to study in-depth. We can define the quality of learning as learning and analyzing the learning materials in-depth and precisely instead of superficially. Therefore, when students compete against each other to get high scores, they put all their efforts to scrutinize the learning materials more and more and ask more questions about each line they read so diligently that they can learn the subject precisely. In this way, the quality of learning increases. For instance, as high grades and being among top three students at the undergraduate level is very important for students to attend a better university for their graduate studying, they try to study their courses in-depth to be able to handle any type of questions and get high scores and be among top students.
Secondly, competition for high scores causes effective changes in learning materials. One aspect of the quality of learning is the syllabuses the teacher plans to teach. When students compete for high grades, they study more and they will be curious about new advanced things. Therefore, if the demand for learning new and advanced subjects increases, the professor has to update the syllabuses and boost the level of the materials. Although some students who do not care about their scores and studying cannot handle the advanced materials the quality of learning will improve for other students. As a personal experience, I took a course last semester, and in that class, some students and I competed against each other to get high scores since it was one of the main and important courses in my field. As we studied hard for getting high scores, we found the materials basic and after a while, we concluded that the syllabus should be updated because its level is lower than our knowledge. Hence, the professor decided to add some advanced and qualified chapters to the syllabus. The professor believed that competition among students caused an improvement in the quality of learning.
In contrast, it is trustworthy to indicate that the competition for high grades can seriously hurt the quality of learning in some levels of education. For instance, children in elementary schools should not deal with competition and grades because they are not familiar with the concept of competition; also, they need a relaxed atmosphere for their training. Hence, competition can hurt the quality of learning in elementary schools.
To wrap up, the competition for high grades in some levels of education like undergraduate or graduate levels not only does not limit the quality of learning but also enhances it. By competition, students tend to study the subject in-depth; also, they demand advanced and new syllabuses. These two points have straight relationships with the quality of learning.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as to, for instance, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2636.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 508.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18897637795 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76463746022 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.419291338583 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 805.5 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.4252401645 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.818181818 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0909090909 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22727272727 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.255142499784 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102890155701 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0794579227824 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196825860151 0.150359130593 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0554422312432 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => 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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