Many people say that universities should only offer places to young students with the highest marks, while others say they should accept people of all ages, even if they did not do well at school. Discuss both view and give your own opinion.
A school of thought holds that only young students with top performances deserved places at universities, whereas others claim that tertiary education is for all people, irrespective of their ages and performances at school. While the former view is valid to a certain extent, I would support the latter view as age and academic results may fail to reflect a person's intellectual potential.
The advocacy of universities offering sole places to elite young students is justifiable. The rationale is that they have to be dilligent in their studies to get top marks for overall academic performance, and hence the ability to perform well at universities and good career prospects. In addition, their young ages may offer them good acquisition of knowledge compared to their old counterpart. Thus, it seems sensible that they have privileges over those who are older and have lesser achievements. However, this thinking is flawed, as there is still some unfairness in this evaluation regime. For example, in Vietnam, it is prevalent that many parents bribed teachers and authorities to raise their children's marks and create fake achievements.
To restrain the aforementioned phenomenon stemmed from overestimation of students' marks, universities should accept people of all ages, even if they fail to do well at school. At all ages, everyone can still perform well at universities if they apply themselves to their studies. In Vietnam, a student named Kien have dropped out for 3 years since 2017, though, he still passed the national university entrance exam with the highest score in Vietnam by revising hard again for 1 year. In addition, those who have poor performance at high school may have underprivileged backgrounds, and thus they temporarily cannot focus on their high school education. Therefore, it is unfair to abandon the chances of these examples mentioned above.
In conclusion, while there are reasons for prioritize students with top marks, I think universities should accept everyone if they aspire to higher education.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 358, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a person' or simply 'persons'?
Suggestion: a person; persons
...nd academic results may fail to reflect a persons intellectual potential. The advocacy o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, thus, well, whereas, while, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1720.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 323.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32507739938 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23936324884 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99735175634 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 531.0 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4542268078 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.857142857 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0714285714 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06120827912 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.32314935807 0.244688304435 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10643094007 0.084324248473 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0891530981468 0.0667982634062 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196406390248 0.151304729494 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372891162083 0.056905535591 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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