The strengths and weaknesses in the education system in various countries and its myriad impacts have always been a controversial topic. It is a widely held view that the government should be held responsible for the quality of the nation’s education system as its direct impacts are inextricably connected. I will elaborate the strengths and weaknesses with examples throughout this essay.
Notably, there are numerous strengths in the education system in Singapore. The most apparent one would be the strict and intensive curriculum and teaching methods that ensure students have a thorough understanding of the subjects. In addition, the government made education very accessible by providing subsidies in school fees. A survey conducted on Asian students showed that Singapore has the highest percentage of educated citizens and the students indeed excelled in more fields of studies than their Asian counterparts. Throughout my school years, the intensive teaching methods have indubitably helped me to achieve my masters degree.
However, the education system is not without its weakness. Substantial number of people criticize that the curriculum lacked in aspects which promote and foster creativity among students. This is due to sparsity of arts subjects being taught in school and the lack of interest among students. Conceding a point, a survey asserted that parents are convinced that there are barely any creative jobs in the industry after the students are to graduate from an art school. Consequently, Singaporean students often lack the critical creative skills which are the prerequisites of almost any jobs these days.
To recapitulate the above discussion, while the strengths in Singapore’s education system is apparent, the drawbacks are too hard to ignore. Hence, I firmly believe that the government should focus on facilitating creativity among students from a young age through education.
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- Does a certain type of music affect young children's learning? Agree / Disagree ? 88
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, hence, however, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 31.9359605911 119% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.75862068966 226% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 1207.87684729 134% => OK
No of words: 289.0 242.827586207 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59515570934 5.00649968141 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02333449656 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 139.433497537 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574394463668 0.580463131201 99% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 379.143842365 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 8.0 1.56157635468 512% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.4341081919 50.4703680194 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.8 104.977214359 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2666666667 20.9669160288 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2 7.25397266985 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105536637148 0.242375264174 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0447937495044 0.0925447433944 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543190599482 0.071462118173 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0679300743098 0.151781067708 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0377106870914 0.0609392437508 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 12.6369458128 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.2 11.5310837438 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.33 8.32886699507 112% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 55.0591133005 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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