Students are under tremendous pressure to perform well at school and outside the school. Lot of job opportunities open up with good grades from a reputed college. But, are good grades actually a measure of knowledge? I will say no. Good understanding and having a strong basic foundation of concepts is a key to success during and after school years. I believe that, it is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than learning facts and I will explore more about it further in the essay.
First, students are giving way too much importance to grades than focusing on the topic itself. In fact, nowadays students are learning for exams and not for knowledge. By jamming facts before exams students are not able to retain that information for longer time. Any Individual with in-depth knowledge will have better understanding of any subject and with enough experience will gain an authority in that particular field. For example, one my friend in college used to get really good marks in exams. But, if you ask him a question about any topic we learned in earlier semester, he could not able to answer it.
On the other hand, if students learn and understand the idea and concept properly, they can always reflect back on it even after years. They will remember the topic and logic behind it and can learn other things pretty quickly that shares the same logic. To ensure overall growth of students, education system in various system is undergoing a drastic and positive change. For example, when I was in school we learned in Science class that plants need sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to survive. We never question the book. Now the scenario is changed, my daughter is learning science with hands on experiments right from elementary level. Teachers are conducting experiments in the classroom to show the dependency and effects of these required factors on plants. Students are keeping observation journals to record the results.
I do not deny the fact that, sometimes students run out of time to give enough attention to every topic, but if they learn the basic concept they have better chance of reproducing it accurately. Facts can be easily washed out from memory if not used for long time and that is why, I strongly believe, it is crucial to grasp the logic behind any topic than to learn facts.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, really, so, well, for example, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1944.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 399.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87218045113 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53517165241 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548872180451 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 595.8 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2588413915 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3636363636 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1363636364 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.77272727273 5.45110844103 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239135730926 0.236089414692 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0647919330089 0.076458572812 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0681500391936 0.0737576698707 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147466024433 0.150856017488 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368625189853 0.0645574589148 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 11.7677419355 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 10.67 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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