Should students be allowed to choose which classes they take, or should they be required to take the same classes as everyone else?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach to education?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
People have different takes on students' freedom in terms of class choices. While some propose they should be able to make their own decision, others project the idea that it is compulsory for them to attend lessons just like everybody. This essay aims to elaborate on the strengths and weaknesses of both schools of thought.
On one hand, granting schoolgoers the right to attend only their desired classes may come with many benefits. Most notably, students get to develop a sense of identity and sharpen important skills unique to the chosen fields of interest. For instance, in Vietnam, most secondary and high schools offer optional I.T courses for students to enrol on should they feel the skills useful for their future career development. However, the problem with this practice is that it requires students to have a good sense of responsibility for themselves and a certain level of commitment to stay the course. In many cases, students choose a class simply because it is easy to get top marks without having to work hard and consequentially, miss out on chances to realise their full potential.
On the other hand, making it mandatory for all students to enrol on the same classes also has its own fair share of merits and demerits. Obviously, it facilitates educational standardization, which will improve the overall quality of the future workforce, as everyone receives similar training in the same number of subjects. This can be observed in publicly funded academic institutes all over Vietnam, where students are requested to follow the same curriculum established by the Ministry of education. However, the disadvantage of this approach revolves around how students' innate abilities will not be fully harnessed, as they have to spend time cultivating knowledge in multiple areas while their talents are not properly nutured.
In conclusion, I believe that subjects that provide basic skills and knowledge should be made compulsory for all students, whereas subjects that deal with talents could be rendered optional.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 32, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: T
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...their talents are not properly nutured. In conclusion, I believe that subjects t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, second, so, whereas, while, for instance, in conclusion, in many cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1717.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 328.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23475609756 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77956332245 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600609756098 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 532.8 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.59170433 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.076923077 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2307692308 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.69230769231 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => 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: 0.278566511932 0.244688304435 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0854278500121 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0449007720545 0.0667982634062 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158061332112 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0292845468799 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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