Students should memorize the fact only after they have studied the idea, trends, and concepts that help explain these facts. Students who have learned only facts have learned only little.
The speaker cites an effective way of learning process of students and claims that students should understand the ideas, trends and concepts before memorizing the facts for better understanding of the subject. As far as I am concerned about learning process, the statement is true enough and therefore I completely agree with the claim made for the following reasons.
Most of the students are exam oriented and therefore they focus primarily upon the main facts without knowing the basic ideas and concept behind it. However, such learning process often frustrates students if similar types of questions are asked in the examination. For instance, consider the case of chemical reaction between acid and metal. Since students are often concerned with only those chemical reactions which frequently appear in the examination, they are unaware about the possible chemical reaction between different types of metal and acid at different physical conditions and the concentration of the acid. If any change in the type of acid or metal or in the concentration in the acid is made in the question, it is for sure that the students would make a mistake as they do not have the basic idea about such reactions. To better understand the chemical reactions, students should have basic ideas and concepts regarding atomic size, nuclear force, valency, chemical reactivity of metals and non-metals at different physical states, role of catalyst, and the physical conditions imposed during chemical reactions. Without these basic ideas and concepts, students are unlikely to learn chemical reaction.
Students often make a rote memorization of the facts which are related to their examination, without knowing basic ideas about the terms related to a specific topic. This obviously creates trouble to students while solving the problem and students are likely to leave the question during examination. For instance, students can easily make a rote understanding of the formula of power of a body (i.e, power = work/time), and they may be able to solve such problem if the question is asked in terms of work and time. However, if the problem of power is asked in terms of force, mass, distance, velocity, or distance travelled and time taken, it is for sure that the students who are unknown about how these terms are related to power (power=work/time, work= force*distance, force=mass*acceleration, acceleration= change in velocity/ time, and velocity= distance/ time), it cause stress upon students and they are likely to leave the question in examination. Thus, having a proper knowledge about the basic ideas and concept about the subject matter is essential for the students to have a proper understanding of the subject matter.
In conclusion, rote study of the facts without understanding the basic ideas and concepts is not reliable at all. It not only cause frustration during examination but also leads students to make wrong generalization of the subject matter. At the same time, students lose their confidence and forget what have been studied. Thus, rote study is not long lasting and is almost meaningless unless they have the basic knowledge, ideas and the concepts of the facts.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 726, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: power
...wn about how these terms are related to power power=work/time, work= force*distance, force=...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 869, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'causes'?
Suggestion: causes
... time, and velocity= distance/ time, it cause stress upon students and they are likel...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, regarding, so, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 12.9106741573 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2674.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 510.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2431372549 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91325617717 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427450980392 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 842.4 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.3703801831 60.3974514979 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.555555556 118.986275619 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3333333333 23.4991977007 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31678337344 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10991735866 0.0831039109588 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0549913581584 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208355437743 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0453970119259 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.1392134831 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 48.8420337079 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 726, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: power
...wn about how these terms are related to power power=work/time, work= force*distance, force=...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 869, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'causes'?
Suggestion: causes
... time, and velocity= distance/ time, it cause stress upon students and they are likel...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, regarding, so, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 12.9106741573 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2674.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 510.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2431372549 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91325617717 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427450980392 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 842.4 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.3703801831 60.3974514979 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.555555556 118.986275619 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3333333333 23.4991977007 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31678337344 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10991735866 0.0831039109588 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0549913581584 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208355437743 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0453970119259 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.1392134831 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 48.8420337079 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.