Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both the views presented.
Some people believe that competition for high grades motivates students to excel in the classroom. Others believe that such competition seriously limits the quality of real learning.
Some people think that competition among students for grades leads to better overall improvement of both of them. Although, this reasoning is true, I firmly believe that more often than not, such competition results in lack of growth of the concerned students in future.
Students who compete with the top graders in the class tend to focus and divert most of their valuable time in mugging up the syllabus, rather than critically examining the stuff that they are reading and finding out the reasons behind the theories. Such a kind of attitude towards exams, may lead to achieving excellent grades during the school period, but will do little good when it comes to actually implementing the concepts in professional career. Competitive attitude among peers hampers their growth. Instead, peers should be looked at as sources of knowledge rather than competition. Rather than trying to overcome the respective counterpart, students should try to learn from them and adopt their methods and ideologies in achieving good grades.
Such was the message from the film 3 Idiots, in which a boy named Rancho(Aamir Khan) along with his two friends tried to encourage each and every student in their college to pursue after their dreams rather than the grades, for having a successful and satisfied life. The film demonstrated the exact point mentioned in the issue, where a competing attitude of one student eventually lead him to realize, that education is more important than achieving good grades for being successful in life.
Although, one cannot argue that healthy competition ensures dilligent effort by both the concerned parties and therefore, a better overall outcome. But healthy competition is hard to achieve. More importantly, competition against a less talented student might enable you to create a false sense of achievement, thus denying you of realising your own true potential. Thus, before competing with the other students, competition should be with yourself first. Competing with self can enable you truly to realise the faults that you made previously, and thus such audit of yourself can entail an improved personality in future.
For example, during my school days, I too used to compete with one of my friends for high grades. It not only created enmity between the two of us, but also after unable to achieve more grades than my friend, it made me despondent. Thus, learning from my mistakes, during college, rather than going for the grades, I spent time improving my basic concepts and thus was able to top the college during my first year.
In conclusion, although, competition on the outside, tends to potray a sense of growth in both the parties, is inherently deterring them of achieving their full potential and thus hampering their growth. Thus, I believe, that students should be encouraged to freely welcome guidance from their peers, rather than looking up to them as rivals that one should contest with. Moreover, schools are a place for learning, not for contesting.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...ack of growth of the concerned students in future. Students who compete with the top ...
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Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...self can entail an improved personality in future. For example, during my school days...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2529.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 490.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1612244898 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63649774635 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530612244898 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 749.7 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.1740299482 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.45 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.45 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12764876749 0.243740707755 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0411445994118 0.0831039109588 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0428343722004 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0683206363805 0.150359130593 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469042076596 0.0667264976115 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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