Many people think that students should be allowed to choose the subjects that they study in school, whereas others feel that they should study a set curriculum. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
In modern times, getting a good education has been increasingly important. While it can be argued that all students should study a prescribed syllabus, another opinion is that students should decide which subjects they wish to study at school. In this essay, I will examine both sides of this argument and provide my overall opinion.
Generally speaking, there are a variety of reasons why people believe that students should choose what they want to study. Perhaps the main reason why people are in favor of this idea is that students will be more interested in the coursework if they have chosen it themselves. If a student is interested in a particular subject, they are more likely to do well in it. However, if a student is studying a subject which they hate, they will probably become bored, unmotivated and even depressed. This would in all likelihood lead to underperformance in that subject.
Secondly, a set syllabus may lead to disruption in the classroom. Students who are studying something they do not enjoy may disturb their classmates and teacher. Therefore, the decision as to whether students should choose their own subjects must be taken in the context of the whole classroom.
Despite these arguments, there is also a case for the idea that students should not be allowed to choose what they want to study. Perhaps the main argument against this idea is that some subjects need to be studied whether or not a student is interested in them. For example, if a person cannot read or do basic mathematics, they will struggle to survive in modern society. They will not be able to manage their finances, to deal with legal issues such as contracts, or to become computer literate.
In conclusion, this is a topic that raises strong passions on both sides of the argument. My personal view is that students should be allowed some control over their choice of subjects because this would encourage them to be more independent in their studies and they would enjoy their lessons more. However, the more essential subjects should be compulsory to ensure that students can go on to be productive, prosperous and happy members of society.
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Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
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Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...s that some subjects need to be studied whether or not a student is interested in them. For ex...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rosperous and happy members of society.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 13.1623246493 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 7.85571142285 280% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 24.0651302605 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1805.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 364.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95879120879 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67200660726 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491758241758 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 552.6 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.3795577519 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.277777778 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2222222222 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.22222222222 7.06120827912 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
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: 0.400106663424 0.244688304435 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129307438787 0.084324248473 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.091111195536 0.0667982634062 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248371855878 0.151304729494 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032603384677 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 50.2224549098 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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