Memorising facts is a superior skill for successful learning. Do you agree or disagree?
One of the most significant abilities required for studying success is remembering facts. This essay disagrees that memorising skills are the foundation of educational superiority. Firstly, learning by heart without understanding the subject undermines longevity of the knowledge; secondly, given the permanent availability of the information online, modern schools and universities tend to prioritise other qualities.
Information gathered during studies becomes useless if student can’t neither explain the root cause of it, nor is able to remember it. Learning different subjects simultaneously can be challenging, leading to a constant replacement of material in the brain. Hence, when people are blindly trying to memorise, they tend to loose a large chunk of content by the time when final examinations approach. For instance, research done by the Ministry of Education in UK revealed that those graduates who exploited ‘remember everything’ method, received lower marks than those who simply tried to dig into the basic concept of the idea.
Furthermore, the technological progress has entirely transformed the priorities that institutes of education follow in teaching. With the majority of data being at our fingertips online, the focus has shifted from keeping everything inside one’s head to utilising Internet sources to train other skills, such as analysing or forecasting. The King’s College London is a prime example, where students are allowed to use online library when sitting the exam.
In conclusion, a cognitive ability to memorise is not the major factor contributing to high achievements in schooling since it comes at the expense of other, more meaningful, skills and is less valuable in today’s Internet-friendly world.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
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Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...lindly trying to memorise, they tend to loose a large chunk of content by the time wh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, second, secondly, so, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1504.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 262.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.74045801527 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17406746483 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.721374045802 0.561755894193 128% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.4500803387 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.727272727 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8181818182 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.36363636364 7.06120827912 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.113364250336 0.244688304435 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0430577737918 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576956470674 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.069263089685 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0660097971127 0.056905535591 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 50.2224549098 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.31 12.4159519038 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 11.11 8.58950901804 129% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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