Grades encourage students to work harder at school Do you agree or disagree Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion

Grades can have a negative or positive impact on the feelings of the students, depending on how we can see it. On one hand, some students can claim it is unfair that all is reduced to a number, while the teachers can claim it is an objective way to evaluate the teaching process. But, if I were forced to choose one side of that discussion, I would completely agree with the idea that grades motivate students to work harder. I feel this for several reasons that I will discuss in the following paragraphs.

First, obtaining high grades can push students to continue studying. In some cases, teachers tend to give out student’s grades in front of the whole class. Thus, those with low scores can get embarrassed. On the other hand, students who are told to have high marks tend to feel happy and they feel as if that grade was a reward for their high effort. So, this feeling of happiness and satisfaction can move other students to seek the same grades. My personal experience is a compelling illustration of this. When I was a freshman, I obtained a very low mark for programming among the remaining subjects. This fact made me worry about my academic situation since I could fail. Obviously, I changed my study strategy, and I put all my effort in my lower mark subject. Consequently, my grades in academic activities such as lessons, homeworks,projects, etc started to increase over time and this motivated me to be better.

Secondly, obtaining high marks help students to improve their possibility to obtain a scholarship. Since some scholarships require a high grade in order to reward the best students. Therefore, students start to put more effort to obtain high marks because in some cases scholarships give an economical award. This award allows students to dedicate full time to academic activities. In other cases this scholarship helps students to improve their academic record to apply to some universities and enroll in it. In my experience, when I searched for a scholarship. The requirements of scholarship imply an average grade of 9 over 10. So, I needed to improve my academic performance. I studied more and obtained only grades over 9. This fact helped me to increase my possibilities to win a scholarship.

In conclusion, high grades have many positive impacts in the academic life of students, thus I feel that in fact grades stimulate students to enhance their academic performance. Moreover, high marks provide good opportunities in the academic environment such as scholarships and promote self confidence of students and increase the feeling of happiness and satisfaction.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, i feel, in conclusion, in fact, such as, in some cases, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2176.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 437.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97940503432 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99995898085 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487414187643 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 686.7 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.6556218103 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.6923076923 100.406767564 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8076923077 20.6045352989 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11538461538 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.109185518292 0.236089414692 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0355926400984 0.076458572812 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0367055440463 0.0737576698707 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0789286896836 0.150856017488 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0239873364881 0.0645574589148 37% => 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: 10.4 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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