Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for which the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The act of trying to outclass the others in a particular setting is known as competition. Just as we have two sides of a coin, competition as its bad and good sides. In other words, competition as its pros and cons which can either mar or make one. As it is usually said, life is not a bed of roses and this life is filled with competition, as people tend to compete for any and everything. The prompt suggests that competing for high grades gravely inhibits the quality of acquiring knowledge at all stages in education. In my opinion, I mostly agree that competition limits learning in all levels of educations for three reasons.
To begin, education is an avenue which people use to transfer knowledge to another. And in every educational setting, competition is usually experienced in every level. This is not limited to the educational sector alone, competition is witnessed in every facet of life. History has made it known that competition brings out the best in one, as people tend to go outside their comforts zones to acquire the prize being competed for. During the 90s, when trade slave was predominantly the way of life, kings in African countries usually compete amongst themselves to bring in the greatest number of slaves, they go extra miles to achieve this, majorly to win the favour of the white men in the upper echelon. This example demonstrates how people put in the work to bring out the best to get the prize.
However, people tend to forget that anything that has advantages would always have disadvantages. Competition indeed is a good way to make people industrious but when considered thoroughly, it is realised that competition limits learning. For instance, if 5 students are competing to be the overall best student in a faculty, don't you think such person might likely read to pass, instead of reading to learn? Truly, reading would be done under pressure bearing in mind that he or she has others competing for the same position, learning would not be fun rather a must-do to get the stated prize.
Additionally, competition has prevented people from rendering assistance to others, teaching others and helping people to scale through the arcane hurdles of subject or topics people tag as difficult. It has made people not to lend a helping hand to students vying for similar position. It has prevented true learning that requires assistance being rendered by others. For instance, if an individual intends to get a particular score in an exam, such a person is likely to not teach any of its course mates that intend to get similar score. Such person would hoard knowledge and information majorly because he wants to get the desired high score.
Education is a platform people use to learn; competition is good as it aids to bring out the best in one, but we can't abjure the fact that competition limits learning as it prevents people from understanding the true essence of learning due to the pressure that stems from competition.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, for instance, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 12.9106741573 194% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2471.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 509.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85461689587 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71912795029 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497053045187 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 776.7 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2363420113 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.318181818 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1363636364 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.95454545455 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198878936939 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599267822018 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.056274610099 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112864654307 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0613749551643 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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