Do you agree or disagree with the following statement For most jobs or areas of work understanding the limits of your knowledge is more important than the knowledge you have Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? For most jobs or areas of work, understanding the limits of your knowledge is more important than the knowledge you have. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Some believe that employees should be aware of their knowledge gaps, while others are of the opinion that they should understand the knowledge they already possess. I am among the former group for reasons that I will explain in the subsequent paragraphs.

To begin with, no job can be done effectively without the understanding of what goes into the work and what the expected output is. During work, it is necessary to put prior knowledge into practice using appropriate methods. This helps strengthen the concepts of the subject matter as we see it being used in real life. For example, a student may learn accounting methods during their time at university, but may not fully understand how to use them for real-life data and how to prepare reports that are up to the industry standard. However, by applying their knowledge in the workplace, they can be guided to better understand the methods to do this. There is no disputing the fact that prior knowledge will be put to use and will be enhanced through application.

While understanding the fundamentals of a subject matter is essential, one is not expected to know everything when they start working. As seeking further knowledge is the right of an employee, companies offer tailored training programs for their staff. It is of utmost importance that employees seek guidance from experts in the areas of their field. They should be aware of what they are lacking and request for training from the management if needed. Being aware of their shortcomings can allow them to grow and be competent in their line of work. Only then can they perform to their full potential. If employees only rely on the knowledge they have, they may feel that they know enough and do not require any training. This can lead to complacency as they will think they have no room for improvement. This may lead to further issues down the road, such as mediocre performance and disagreements.

In short, it would be wrong to say that understanding the knowledge you have is not necessary to do a job, but in order to do a job well, people should understand where they are lacking, so that they can have a motive to acquire more knowledge and be proficient in their fields. People's abilities will be restricted to the scope of their foundational education if they only concentrate on what they already know.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 174, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...uring work, it is necessary to put prior knowledge into practice using appropriat...
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Line 3, column 355, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to account'.
Suggestion: to account
... life. For example, a student may learn accounting methods during their time at university...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, then, well, while, for example, in short, such as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1946.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 402.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8407960199 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73127531656 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497512437811 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 582.3 618.680645161 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6078248675 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.421052632 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1578947368 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78947368421 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
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: 0.179167932631 0.236089414692 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611321966862 0.076458572812 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530209801719 0.0737576698707 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128918699215 0.150856017488 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327801492907 0.0645574589148 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 11.7677419355 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => 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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