Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education.
The issue raised here asks the reader to take stand on whether all levels of education competition for high grades will hinder the quality of education or not. Education is not an affair of “telling” and being told, but rather it’s a constructive process. Aim of the education should be to teach students how to go about life and not run behind the grades and at the same time there should be a healthy competition among the students to strive for excellence in subject and not for grades. Competing to just get higher grades than anyone else will negatively effect the quality of education. Let’s dive into some examples to understand more about it.
Firstly, when students are made to compete with each other for the sole purpose of getting good grades, students loose the importance of why and what they are studying. For instance, in a med school, all the students focus on getting good grades and involve in by hearting their whole textbooks without really understanding anything within it and not having to see and understand concepts practically in lab or in a hospital, then what kind of worthy doctors are we producing. Would these students be able to save people’s lives as they have strived for grades and not knowledge. Hence, it becomes very important to understand that higher grades do not mean quality education, rather competition should be to become a better professional and spend time in understanding and experiment what has been learnt.
Secondly, let’s take the example of Albert Einstein. Einstein was never the topper of his class, rather he was a student who couldn’t do math properly, not get good marks and his teachers had given up on him. His school followed the grades to be the regulator of whether a student is good or not. Moreover he was deemed by his teachers as an unworthy student and today the whole world recognise him for his contributions in physics and he has unravelled many secrets of the universe. So it’s quite evident in this case that grades doesn’t mean the student has no knowledge, it comes down to how every student is evaluated.
Thirdly, in an engineering school, which is all about practicality, trial and error. If grades are the way to go, then no student will ever be employed by any company once they graduate. Because though an engineering student has an excellent grade, and still doesn’t know how to operate a machinery, say for instance, a computer engineer who doesn’t know how a simple program works or how to think for a logic for a real world problem then what is the use of the degree. The three or four years spent in graduate school is of no use. In some fields like this grades don’t really matter, its the kind of projects or the kind of research the student might do during the course, and moreover when these graduates are hired, their skills are tested and then hired not by their grades.
In conclusion, in real world, knowledge and experience is what counts, competition for grades is not the right way to assess student’s ability. If grade is the factor to judge students then it’s exactly like judging a fish by its climbing capabilities.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2619.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81433823529 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63743078981 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503676470588 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 793.8 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.1436321884 60.3974514979 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.714285714 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9047619048 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.52380952381 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225457688741 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.069986003522 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0844121557033 0.0758088955206 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140251835002 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101498485641 0.0667264976115 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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