Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
It is said that the one thing which does not change is change itself. The lack of interest that a young student has in a particular subject may be temporary and if his/her school decides dissuade him from pursuing his studies further in that field, they may be robbing their country of a potential scientist or a nobel laureate.
During school years, students are in an exprimental phase. They try their hands at various activities, be it academics, sports, arts or culture. By trial and error they slowly learn where their true interests and passion lies and decide upon a career path based on it. If the school acts preemptively and starts to decide what a particular student is good what and what he should do with his life, they are in-effect encroaching on the student's right to choose and his freedom to express.
Also, different schools follow different curriculum. They have their own teaching styles, examination patterns and quality of academic staff. Very often, a student's interest or lack of interest in a particular subject is influenced by all of these factors. He may not like mathematics, not because he is not good at it, but by of the way it is taught. If the educational institution decides that the particular student is not faring well in mathematics solely based on his grade, that is not a true measure of his future success in the field.
Additionally, there is no proven fool proof method to assess a student's interest in a particular field of study. While examinations are a good way to measure bookish knowledge, there are several students who, while not scoring good marks in theoretical exams perform remarkably well in the practical or real world application of the theoretical principles. For example, imagine Einstein. He is known have been bad at academics at school and his school is also known to have undermined his academic capability based on his performance in theoretical examinations.
However, in today's world, where schools work meticulously to make sure that only the top students join them and that these students perform well in national exams, there is always the probability that the marks scored by a student in his exams would be the measure of his interest and so called "success" in that area. And schools are known to try to make students choose subjects in which they perform well in exams -which is such a narrow criteria for assessing capabilities.
Whilst schools can't be blamed for wanting spotless success rates, they must take it upon themselves that they serve as fertile grounds for sowing the seeds for the creativity and intellect that will shape the future of tomorrow. And they should make sure that they don't weed out a sprout only because it did not give a good yield in the first season. They should try new fertilizers and growing techniques and make sure they get the best possible yield!
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'criterion'?
Suggestion: criterion
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, well, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2387.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 489.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88139059305 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74273308949 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490797546012 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 730.8 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.6994851978 60.3974514979 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.35 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.45 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21729042199 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0618560637794 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469656123401 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116773542285 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0393928280511 0.0667264976115 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => 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: 11.32 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => 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: 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.