Some people think that schools should select students according to their academic abilities, while others believe that it is better to have students with different abilities studying together.
Discuss both views and state your own opinion.
It is considered by some that learning institutions such as schools ought to form classes from students with similar academic capabilities. However, other individuals are certain that it would be better to have mixed classes with students who possess different academic abilities. Although students with strong academic skills will enhance them faster studying around peers with similar abilities, I believe that it is more important to have mixed classes since it will not only boost every student’s soft skills but will also help considerably the students with mediocre abilities.
On the one hand, some people think that forming classes from students of similar academic capability is preferable because this will improve the learning process in terms of time and effectiveness. In other words, such students are more likely to have a similar level of knowledge and are less likely to ask questions that will bore the majority of a class, which will engage them faster in any class activity or assignment, such as group projects, presentations, research. As a result, their studying productivity will increase dramatically based on mutual interest caused by equal academic abilities. Recent research, conducted by the Pedagogical University of Calgary, found that students with similar academic skills who have studied alongside have at least a GPA of 4.00. However, I disagree with this opinion because studying in such classes may cause a high level of tension caused by competitiveness among such students.
On the other hand, other people claim that it is better for students to study in mixed classes because this will help them develop better soft skills. To put it simply, when there is a student in class who is struggling with Mathematics, they are very likely to be helped by their peer who is excellent at this subject. As a result, both students will feel much better about themselves and acquire such valuable social skills as compassion, tolerance, kindness, trust, humanity. To illustrate, according to a survey, conducted among high school teachers in Toronto, 96% of students who study in mixed classes demonstrate very well-developed senses of justice, humanity, and tolerance. I agree with this opinion, and I am also inclined to believe that mixed classes may help weaker students to believe that they are more capable than they think as they will see a positive example set by their peers with better academic abilities.
In conclusion, it is argued by some whether there should be mixed classes with students of different academic abilities or not. Although students in classes that consist of only those who demonstrate great learning abilities may study more effectively, I believe that having mixed classes is much more important because cohorts in such classes will not only acquire necessary academic knowledge but will also develop invaluable social skills such as tolerance, compassion, and kindness.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, well, as to, at least, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 7.85571142285 229% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 7.30460921844 260% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 40.0 24.0651302605 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 41.998997996 155% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2476.0 1615.20841683 153% => OK
No of words: 466.0 315.596192385 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31330472103 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.20363070211 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76951097033 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.43991416309 0.561755894193 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 774.9 506.74238477 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 31.0 20.2975951904 153% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.8477380283 49.4020404114 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.066666667 106.682146367 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.0666666667 20.7667163134 150% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305745445302 0.244688304435 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13430225667 0.084324248473 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589200025299 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217302246949 0.151304729494 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322852381323 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.1 13.0946893788 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.55 50.2224549098 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 11.3001002004 147% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.11 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 9.78957915832 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.1190380762 142% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.7795591182 158% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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