Some people suggest the schools select pupils according to their academic ability, while others believe that it is better for young people with different abilities to study together. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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Some people suggest the schools select pupils according to their academic ability, while others believe that it is better for young people with different abilities to study together. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

People's opinions differ as to whether or not should students be selected according to their academic performances. While distinguishing students does have lots of benefits, I believe different students learning together is a wiser choice.

On the one hand, I can understand why people support streaming. In doing so, pupils with higher scores are expected to learn more, and therefore they can achieve higher goals. For example, in China there are a similar enrolment exam in some high schools, and students studying there are more likely to receive better education in the future. A recent report reveals that the world's top universities' enrolment rate in these schools are noticeably higher than that in ability-mixed schools. One possible benefit would be that there will appear more elite university graduates and society will have more intelligent and creative workforce.

On the other hand, there are a variety reasons why I agree with those who advocate ability-mixed schooling. Firstly, discriminations between different student groups can be avoided as they know they are taught in the same school and there is nothing special to be good at academic or physical or artistic performances. Secondly, studying together enables learners to seek help from each other in terms of physical activities, art projects and communication skills, and it might become feasible to promote an all-round development of a student. Many high schools in the UK, for example, teach students with different abilities, and many graduates have entered great universities or colleges where they can achieve their potential. Finally, an academic ability is not the only standard for evaluating students. If we recruit students based on his or her test scores, there will be an implication that practical or artistic abilities are less important than academic abilities.

In conclusion, it seems to me that streaming is indeed beneficial for students with better exam grades, whilst having mixed abilities students in schools is a better option for every learners and society as a whole.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1753.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3773006135 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87532634663 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579754601227 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4921622112 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.214285714 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2857142857 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.64285714286 7.06120827912 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.235306166969 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0837019266124 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627279059081 0.0667982634062 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148613634559 0.151304729494 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0406190215443 0.056905535591 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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