Memorising facts is the most important way to succeed in education To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

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Memorising facts is the most important way to succeed in education.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

The education system is largely based on remembering texts and theories, so the key to achieving success in it could be an outstanding memory. From my point of view, while memorising can be convenient for achieving top results at lower grades, as the contents become larger and more elaborated, the main formula for being successful at education consist of a developed capacity to reason and innovate.

Memorising is the most efficient method to obtaining high grades in high school. Outstanding marks can be easily reached by memorising either text books for theorethical classes, such as History, or how to resolve the different types of exercises in practical classes, like Mathematics. Therefore, students who posses an efficient memory tend to obtain better results. However, as the complexity of the courses increases, much more than this attribute is needed for excelling.

Moreover, short term memory is not a synonym of knowledge. Memorising does not imply understanding, which is necessary for long term memory. Therefore, high grades do not mean that the person has deeply comprehend concepts, and thus, has learned them. A recent study shows that if the test stucture suddenly changes, most children who obtained good marks in previous tests due to memory could not pass it.

To conclude, I partly disagree with the statement. In my opinion, whereas memorising the exam's content may be quite useful to obtain exceptional results in high school, basic concepts that will probably be needed in further education are not being learned and as the syllabus get larger and more complex, this method will stop being efficient.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 204, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'comprehended'.
Suggestion: comprehended
... do not mean that the person has deeply comprehend concepts, and thus, has learned them. A...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, whereas, while, such as, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1379.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 262.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26335877863 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78257887184 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.629770992366 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 422.1 506.74238477 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

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: 75.537104569 49.4020404114 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.916666667 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8333333333 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120068243605 0.244688304435 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0465447476216 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396392613765 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0709177410116 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0125000548113 0.056905535591 22% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => 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: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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