Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Learning continues throughout one's life. We need to learn different things for improving our personal and professional life. The most important phase of learning is when we are students as it shapes our personality and career. But only handful of them are able to make a successful life for themselves. The major cause of this is that this group doesn't just memorize facts but dig harder into concepts and theories so that they could apply them in real world. Hence I agree that understanding concepts and ideas is definitely more important than learning facts.
Firstly, in a class each studen...
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Sentence: Overall, facts gives us knowledge about things which will remain same throughout whereas concepts are those which we need to understand so that we are capable of molding them as per situation.
Description: The fragment facts gives us is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace gives with verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive
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Always put a space after punctuation marks. E-rater is sensitive.
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Category: Excellent Excellent
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