It is said that the growth potential of a nation is measured by the working-age population of that country, that is, the youth of that nation. The extent to which the youth of that nation can contribute to the development of the country is heavily dependent on the education level of that youth. Keeping this in mind, I mostly disagree with the recommendation of the prompt that 'a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college'. There are two reasons why this is not true and one reason why following the aforementioned idea is actually conducive to students' growth as well as the nation's well being.
To begin with, just how each finger in a hand is different in its strenghts and weaknesses, each child is born different. What might be a childhood dream and a pleasant memory for one might be a disaster for another, a memory they wish to forget. Having said that, the standardized curriculum desgined by the policy makers might benefit some, bringing out their innate talents and at the same time, cause damage to another. Setting a standardized curriculum implies that students would be assessed in a standardized meanner, meaning the instructors would be judging a fish on its ability to climb a tree. Such grading procedures would be taxing on students' mental health, and there might be unseen long-term consequences in the form of low self-esteem, lack of confidence, overscrupulousness, etc.
Further, this standardized assessment might hamper a nation's progress in the long run, where students who could have performed better in another field, may have never gotten the opportunity to explore their strengths and utilize them to contribute positively in the growth of the nation, both socially and economically. Nations like India, aware of the consequences, have started adopting a more well-rounded approach in their latest policies like New Education Policy, 2020, in order to harness the growth potential and help the students explore their interests more.
However, while standardized curriculum does seem to have negative impacts, an obvious benefit would be elimination of the 'paradox of choice'. Research reports have shown that people are better satisfied when they have less choices, which leads to more rational decision-making. Similarly, in the case of education, teenagers are going through a confusing phase in life. Hence, by studying the same content till they hit adulthood would mean that they understand their interests better, and this would help them explore their interests in college. As informed and responsible adults, they would be in a much better position to choose their life paths.
To conclude, I believe that striking a proper balance between the choice of electives and compulsory curriculum would combine the best of two worlds and ultimately benefit the nation and students alike.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 798, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... of confidence, overscrupulousness, etc. Further, this standardized assessment mi...
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Line 7, column 218, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun choices is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ple are better satisfied when they have less choices, which leads to more rational d...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, hence, however, if, may, similarly, so, well, while, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2428.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 467.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19914346895 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88772936315 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539614561028 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 739.8 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5778061783 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.823529412 118.986275619 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4705882353 23.4991977007 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225380009912 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738125716759 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806650700255 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12329778499 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0918697650251 0.0667264976115 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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 798, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... of confidence, overscrupulousness, etc. Further, this standardized assessment mi...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 218, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun choices is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ple are better satisfied when they have less choices, which leads to more rational d...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, hence, however, if, may, similarly, so, well, while, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2428.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 467.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19914346895 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88772936315 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539614561028 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 739.8 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5778061783 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.823529412 118.986275619 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4705882353 23.4991977007 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225380009912 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738125716759 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806650700255 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12329778499 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0918697650251 0.0667264976115 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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.