Some people believe that competition for high grades motivates students to excel in the classroom. Others believe that such competition seriously limits the quality of real learning.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Competitiveness affects both ways, it can inspire one to work harder find more time to dedicate to studies and learn deeper or it can pressure one to cut corners, research frequently asked question and prepare only to score higher than fellow classmates. It is true that competition limits profound learning when grades are given more importance. Grades getting more importance have several impact on students cognition.
To begin with, all of us have encountered the form that asks for your previous grades before getting into any educational institution. This circumscribes one's talents, making him believe that getting better scores is the only thing that would differentiate him from the rest. Take for an example, the IITs and NITs of India, these are the top rated government institutions of the country, but getting an admission into them seems a rat race. Only those who can get better marks in entrance exams are provided admissions. One such recent case was of a girl who was reject by an IIT but was accepted by MIT in United States. These highlights the serious flaw which is incorporated in the system which compares students on the basis of their grades or marks.
Moreover, several scholarship programs ask for the grades that you have acquired. Only those with better grades are given importance. Irrespective of financial situations or other circumstances that one may have faced. For an instance, a consistently good performing student might have been debilitated for short period by some accident or incident mentally or physically during the exam time. But his circumstance would never matter as only the grades will be asked.
Additionally, the family and friends who compare their grades and conclude that better scoring student is the smart one or more deserving one, demotivates others, they overlook the fact that different people have different skills and lower grades cannot access their specific skills.
However, having a scale to measure performance is required to distinguish top performers from average ones. But it should be made sure that all conditions that put down a consistent top performer are kept in mind during evaluation. How they have been performing their whole life is more important than a sporadic low score.
Conclusively, everyone is made different with different qualities and skills it is the way of nature. When trying to elect the best one should keep in mind that mere grades do not get used as the sole standard for analogy.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 237, Rule ID: FELLOW_CLASSMATE[1]
Message: Use simply 'classmates'.
Suggestion: classmates
...n and prepare only to score higher than fellow classmates. It is true that competition limits pro...
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Line 1, column 402, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
... more importance have several impact on students cognition. To begin with, all of us ...
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Line 3, column 155, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...ational institution. This circumscribes ones talents, making him believe that gettin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, it is true, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 58.6224719101 63% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2090.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 406.0 442.535393258 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14778325123 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75254432827 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593596059113 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 656.1 704.065955056 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6156228813 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.5 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.4 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177668959722 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536776211575 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0457607848939 0.0758088955206 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0836328204759 0.150359130593 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0398269675628 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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