Standardized tests are exams given to students at the end of each academic year. The results are used to determine whether or not students move to the next grade level. As our society places more emphasis on education, many school districts, along with th

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Standardized tests are exams given to students at the end of each academic year. The results are used to determine whether or not students move to the next grade level. As our society places more emphasis on education, many school districts, along with the federal government, are using standardized tests to ensure that students receive the best education possible, and we should support this.

First, these tests are given statewide and nationwide, thereby setting a strong standard for all schools to follow. In order to advance, students are required to achieve a minimum score that shows they have acquired the basic, necessary skills of their level. Teachers must therefore emphasize the appropriate material or face the possibility that their students will not pass. This pressure nearly guarantees that students, regardless of environment or background, receive a standard, quality education.

In addition, with these exams, schools become more accountable for the success of their students. By averaging the scores of students, the quality of education of different schools can be compared. With this information, state and federal governments can identify those schools with exceptional results and reward them accordingly as well as identify those performing poorly and offer the necessary aid or take other appropriate actions to help them improve.

Finally, the results of these exams can be used to provide help to those students who need it most. Simply moving children into the next grade level because of age and not ability has long been a staple of most academic institutions. This social promotion needs to end. With these tests, promotion to the next level will be only for those students who pass and show the necessary ability to move forward while those who don’t pass will stay behind to receive more assistance.

The article states that it is a good idea to use standardize exams to ensure that the students get the best education that possible and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that these tests are not a good tool to test the students and opposes each of the author’s reasons.

First, the reading claims that these test are the same in all the country and so the students in all states are taken the same test. The professor refutes this point by saying these test are not a good standard to evaluate the students ability in all places and using these kind of test decrease the teacher’s freedom to teach. According to professor as the schools are compared to each other by these exams, the teachers have to teach just something that they are told and it is not a good standard because schools in different part of a society have to use an appropriate training technics to help the students to help them learn better.

Second, the reading avers that schools become more accountable for the students success. However the professor declare that students are not study in a same school or in a same conditions. He also states students who live in rough places do not get the same education as the students in big cities. He argues that these test do not consider the students and their environmental situations and are not a proper standard.

Third, the article posits that students who cannot pass the test and does not get the minimum requirement to pass the test will remain in the same level. The professor opposes this point by explaining that students have different backgrounds. He contends that some students may have some problems such as becoming ill and it is not a good to evaluate their ability just by a test and make them to stay in a same level.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 228, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...are not a good standard to evaluate the students ability in all places and using these k...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 269, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...tudents ability in all places and using these kind of test decrease the teacher's fre...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 638, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...to help the students to help them learn better. Second, the reading avers that scho...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 72, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...schools become more accountable for the students success. However the professor declare ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 90, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...e accountable for the students success. However the professor declare that students are...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 422, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tuations and are not a proper standard. Third, the article posits that students ...
^^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'kind of', 'such as']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.239067055394 0.261695866417 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.174927113703 0.158904122519 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0845481049563 0.0723426182421 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0495626822157 0.0435111971325 114% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0320699708455 0.0277247811725 116% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0991253644315 0.128828473217 77% => OK
Participles: 0.0262390670554 0.0370669169778 71% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.52047117234 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0408163265306 0.0208969081088 195% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.160349854227 0.128158765124 125% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00874635568513 0.0158828679856 55% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00874635568513 0.0114777025283 76% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1806.0 1645.83664459 110% => OK
No of words: 317.0 271.125827815 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.69716088328 6.08160592843 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.04852973271 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.315457413249 0.374372842146 84% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.249211356467 0.287516216867 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.17665615142 0.187439937562 94% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0725552050473 0.113142543107 64% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52047117234 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 145.348785872 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432176656151 0.539623497131 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 42.3470778217 53.8517498576 79% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0529801325 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.4166666667 21.7502111507 121% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7780036654 49.3711431718 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.5 132.220823453 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4166666667 21.7502111507 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.833333333333 0.878197800319 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.39072847682 177% => OK
Readability: 51.3378023134 50.5018328374 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.42045454545 1.90840788429 74% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409277135672 0.549887131256 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.19915825288 0.142949733639 139% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0959500898067 0.0787303798458 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.669881486652 0.631733273073 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.121689315302 0.139662658121 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.220074223865 0.266732575781 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740809811283 0.103435571967 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.51083680072 0.414875509568 123% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0457433482653 0.0530846634433 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.31547049533 0.40443939384 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0509367003872 0.0528353158467 96% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.26048565121 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 3.49668874172 114% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.62251655629 83% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 3.1766004415 157% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 10.2958057395 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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