A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college

The students of a nation are one of the most important resources of a nation. The rule makers of a nation can work day and night to improve the status of education in that nation. The prompt suggests that a nation must mandate its students to pursue the same national curriculum until they enter college. I mostly agree with the prompt for two reasons, which I will elucidate below. However, I do concede that in some scenario, forcing students to study the same set of courses may not be beneficial.

First of all, a compulsory national curriculum will provide a fair and equal provision for conducting college admit examinations. In such a case, no student can complain regarding difference in difficulty levels of different courses. The same subjects and their content will be taught to all the students of the national curriculum. All of them will be taking the same examination as well and facing the same single competition for the examination. If they were different curriculum for students, there will be different groups of test takers, and the competition in each group may not be the same. In such a situation, compilation of test results will also be a Herculean task. A national curriculum will thus help a nation in a fair and common evaluation of students, thus eliminating biases in college admits due to various curriculum.

Second of all, a curriculum fixed by a nation for all of its students will comprise of all of the subjects and courses that will most likely be useful in life. If there were stream oriented curriculum before entering college, a science focused student will not have much knowlege regarding social sciences and vice-versa. The national curriculum will be designed in order to prepare a student to face any challenge in life, deal with any problem from any domain. Moreover, college curriculum is designed in order of gain expertise in a particular domain. If there is no standard national curriculum before college, then the sole purpose of college education will be rendered null and void. The knowledge of different domains, before entering college, will reduce the chances that a science oriented students does not understand the political and social circumstances prevailing in the nation.

However, I do concede that forcing students to study one same national curriculum can be lead to discomfort and difficulties for some students. Not all students are the same, some of them are prodigies, that can be profoundly interested in a particular domain. For instance, a science prodigy may not be interested in political and social sciences. Forcing them to study those subjects, will be a burden for that student. He or she might not perform well in social sciences, despite being at the top of the class in science. This will lead to a mediocre aggregate performance, which can foil the student's aspiration to get a good college admit.

Thus, I mostly agree that a nation should mandate its students to study the same national curriculum for the above stated reasons. But, in a few circumstances doing so, might not be in the best interest of the student as well as the country.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: comprise; consist of
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Suggestion: all the
...or all of its students will comprise of all of the subjects and courses that will most lik...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...gregate performance, which can foil the students aspiration to get a good college admit....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, so, then, thus, well, for instance, of course, as well as, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2610.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 526.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96197718631 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80193310567 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.423954372624 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 832.5 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.8881356361 60.3974514979 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 100.384615385 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2307692308 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.23076923077 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.439831492979 0.243740707755 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145567369243 0.0831039109588 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124130578999 0.0758088955206 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.296145426204 0.150359130593 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.083595616115 0.0667264976115 125% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.1392134831 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => 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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