A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Nowadays, the effort that some nations make to standardize their education is remarkable. The main reason for doing this is to be able to develop an equal-to-all exam, which can assess the knowledge that students have acquired during their school epoch. In my opinion, although I agree with the standardization of most of the subjects in order to assure that people have a minimum knowledge of many fields, I think that elective courses should be offered as well.
On the one hand, the need in life for general knowledge about language, maths and other subjects is, from my point of view, unquestionable. An engineer needs the ability to write memories, thesis and informs with adequate language and showing proper grammar and vocabulary variety, as well as a philologist has the necessity to calculate the benefits he will earn each month if he saves a certain percentage of money. Consequently, basic courses related to maths, language, physical education, geography and science should be compulsory for all people. This argument aligns with the statement presented.
Furthermore, in order to make standardized exams in conditions of equity for all students, it is necessary to guarantee that their education relates to almost the same subjects. To exemplify this, in Spain, the exam to access university studies is the same for every student in terms of some subjects, and different in terms of elective subjects. The selection method based on this exam has proved to be successful and fair, as people enter their studies according to their effort and abilities for studying, restricting very demanded degrees for people who attained a spectacular performance in that exam. Based upon this circumstance, implementing the same national curriculum, with differences only in elective courses, is definitely advisable.
However, I do not agree with this statement as it is presented. It can be inferred that the proposed policy is to teach every student exactly the same subjects with equal contents. Hence, in this case it would be plausible that, for example, medicine students would need to learn how to integrate, and engineering students would need to know about microbiology. This knowledge will probably not be used by them in their future job, and they would have been able to use that time to become experts in other subjects that could be more useful for their job. For this reason, I do not completely support the claim.
Additionally, if the proposed system was integrated by eliminating all subjects that relate only to certain fields of knowledge (such as maths or physics), this would mean that students would not be initially as prepared to start university as they are now. Thus, this would mean that degrees should increase their time length, in order to provide an adequate education. This would mean a higher amount of money needed to pay for university education, and, hence, a steep decline in the number of people who can afford it. This argument makes me disapprove the statement presented.
In conclusion, although I am convinced that a completely standardized education until entering college is not at all beneficial for students, I support the standardization of some basic subjects, in order to guarantee a minimum knowledge about them. The rest of the courses should be, in my opinion, elective.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, thus, well, for example, i think, in conclusion, such as, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 33.0505617978 169% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2798.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 542.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16236162362 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86664334985 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487084870849 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 882.0 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.5522278342 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.181818182 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6363636364 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.09090909091 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.157949571532 0.243740707755 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0547467386846 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0271347805801 0.0758088955206 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0879925406325 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0260976050962 0.0667264976115 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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