understanding concepts is more important than learning facts. Do you agree or disagree?
The education system is continuously evolving with time. While rote learning was the primary tool to gauge the competency of students in earlier times, the ability to understand novel concepts, is more useful. I, therefore, agree with the statement that understanding concepts are more important than the mere memorization of facts.
Firstly, memorizing facts is an estimate of an individual's skill at retaining information. It is not indicative of someone's intelligence and their ability to comprehend concepts. If a student is adept at memorizing facts but does not know how to use that information and understand its complexity, the information remains insignificant. a student who studies conceptually and understands the context behind the subject has more chance at excelling in life than one who learns facts but does not know how to correlate the information and use it in daily life
Secondly, committing factual information to memory can be a daunting task for students. Some people with an innate ability to remember facts will have an unfair advantage over those who have difficulty memorizing details. This can psychologically affect the students who have an understanding of the concepts but cannot replicate the information during exams. There is a plethora of evidence linking the reason behind students committing suicide to the stress of memorizing textbooks for exams.
Lastly, the examination protocols have changed drastically over the years. Because of the easy accessibility of information via the internet, the focus has shifted from memorization to utilization of knowledge. A lot of universities conduct open books assessments to assess students on the use of concepts and their application to solve problems. For instance, TOEFL's listening section assesses the ability of students to understand the concepts and the underlying ideas in the audio to answer the questions rather than learning the facts and writing them down word to word.
To conclude, comprehension of concepts and using them to correlate information is more beneficial and useful than to learn facts without any understanding of it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
..., memorizing facts is an estimate of an individuals skill at retaining information. It is n...
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Line 3, column 338, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: A
... the information remains insignificant. a student who studies conceptually and un...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 43.0788530466 28% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.0752688172 235% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1809.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 330.0 407.700716846 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48181818182 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16085591273 2.67179642975 118% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539393939394 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 573.3 618.680645161 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 9.59856630824 21% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => 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: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.4786096254 48.9658058833 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.6 100.406767564 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.6045352989 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.45110844103 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267043443045 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0895171273758 0.076458572812 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104031251499 0.0737576698707 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17537893737 0.150856017488 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0870726150538 0.0645574589148 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 11.7677419355 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 58.1214874552 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 10.1575268817 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 10.9000537634 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.01818996416 114% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 86.8835125448 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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