Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Grades marks encourage students to learn Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Grades (marks) encourage students to learn.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Grade, the foundation of the modern education system, has raised wide discussion on whether or not it encourages students to learn. Some people believe that grades definitely increase students' motivation to learn. However, from my perspective, I hold the opinion that grades actually do harm to students' study because of the negative effects it brings to students, the low feedback for some students, and the comprehensive assessment it lacks.

As is known to us all, students nowadays face incredible pressure in school which is deteriating their physical and mental health. Pushed by the close learning schedule and the abundant assignmewnts their teachers hand out, they almost possess no time for their physical exercise. It must be concerned that their body health is decreasing, along with all kinds of diseases that should not appear in their ages. Take my experience as an example. In high school, the daily time line is so strict that it only give us twenty minutes to finish lunch, including the waiting time. Moreover, although we do have P.E. classes, they are often occupied by other teachers of major subjects such as Chinese and math. As a consequence, our valuable time for sporting is lost. In addition, long-time pressure do great harm to students' mental health. It has been shown in some reports that a high proportion of students suffer from mind illness.

Those students always fail to make good grades, will be depressed by grades. In order to keep the enthusiasm to study, students must receive constant positive feed back, from which the easist way is to get good grade. Nonetheless, those bottom students lack such positive feedback and continously being distracted. Maybe their terrible performance in grade is not due to their medicore inteligence, but their lack of positive feedback. For instance, one of my friends in my childhood, Mike, who is a smart boy. He was gifted in math, and expressed intensive interest to math. Unfortunately, he failed his exam in a final test. Losing his confident since than, he became an ordinary students, and quitted school at the end which was a pity.

It must be admitted that grades do reflect some aspects of students' abilities, but it is not comprehensive. Inevitblely, students will make errors and mistakes in an exam resulted in low testing score. How can we say that they are bad students. Maybe they are not interested in this subject but talented in other subjects, or what's worse, their true interests are not included in all subjects at all. In summary, if grade is a plausible metric still need to be proved.

With reasons I mentioned above, I can safely draw the conclusion that grades will sometimes discourage students to learn because of the poor physical and mental health condition, the constant absence of confidance, and the lack of comprehensive judgement.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, moreover, nonetheless, so, still, thus, for instance, in addition, in summary, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2385.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 471.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06369426752 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7514072308 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 212.727598566 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56050955414 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 726.3 618.680645161 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.1380542426 48.9658058833 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.7307692308 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1153846154 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57692307692 5.45110844103 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.85842293907 337% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14821781868 0.236089414692 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0410844212233 0.076458572812 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0454155571394 0.0737576698707 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0978972584426 0.150856017488 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457073970895 0.0645574589148 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 11.7677419355 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 86.8835125448 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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