In many countries, students attend private ‘cram schools’ for extra coaching in test-taking techniques.
What is your view of this practice?
Nowadays, with the advent of many education models and school models, exams have become more diverse, intense, and complex. This has led to an explosion of ‘cram schools’, which train test-taking techniques for students to handle a variety of tests.
Some argue that these kinds of schools will help students gain more knowledge, think faster, and get higher results. Nevertheless, in my view, ‘cram schools’ probably have some negative consequences, which are worth looking for a better solution.
There is no denying that extra coaching helps students increase concentration, improve analytical skills, and manage time better while doing tests. However, this gradually creates path-thinking and mechanical thinking in students and lacking creativity due to stereotypes in test-taking techniques.
A more positive solution for education to help students sharpen and enhance their competencies is to build self-study skills. Although this may take much time for learners to find suitable ways to achieve knowledge, they will understand more deeply about the lessons and the essence of many problems with the ways to solve them. These things are definitely necessary for students to use in real jobs and real life. Besides, governments of these countries have to consider releasing the number of exams and increasing practicing hours to help students find their ways to access the treasure of knowledge.
It’s easy to see that in the modern world, people need to be more flexible, creative, and independent. Moreover, everyone is unique with their own abilities, so self-study skills should be accepted and encouraged in many countries to truly explore the potentials of human beings.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, however, if, look, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, while, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1447.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 261.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54406130268 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83457587535 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.624521072797 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.1331488928 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.583333333 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.297778812063 0.244688304435 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0975478445344 0.084324248473 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0726930329031 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150706824532 0.151304729494 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0706964582083 0.056905535591 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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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.