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 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.
Grades have a significant impact on a students mindset, most universities consider grades as a check for admits, to judge a student and his potential. The prompt posits that competition for grades curbs the quality of learning at all levels of education. In my opinion, I mostly agree with this and would argue that competition for higher grades not only curbs learning but also creates an unwholesome environment for an unassuming form of education.
First, In an environment where students contend for higher grades, an unintended pseudo impression is created that grades are of paramount importance compared to what can be learned or studied. For instance, when a system is stressing or underlining the fact that grades are very important without acknowledging the importance of knowledge. Students are implicitly coerced to compete for grades and completely discard what is actually being thought.
Second, because of the emphasis on grades, students tend to use techniques such as rote to score for in their exams rather than try to get insights into the concepts being thought using active recall and other techniques that could strengthen their understanding. This will inevitably lead to them forgetting the topics being thought, not being able to comprehend concepts that were supposed to be very crucial in their next academic year. This can lead to a series of a chain of events that could lead to a shortcoming in their tenacity on concepts.
Third, this competition can lead to an unhealthy atmosphere where students are not willing to help their classmates, assuming that they have to be ahead of every student. This can highly curb not only learning but developing skills like working with a team, trying to be articulate etcetera.
Although competing for higher grades can push students to work harder, motivate students and keep them motivated throughout. But the cons outweigh the pro. A system where the student’s tenacity in the subject is prioritised over grades would be a better system.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, second, so, then, third, for instance, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1701.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 326.0 442.535393258 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21779141104 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83043576685 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 215.323595506 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.549079754601 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 704.065955056 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.6386245239 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.5 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2857142857 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64285714286 5.21951772744 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.146846097537 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0653945907871 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0776023650762 0.0758088955206 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0903679713643 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0781256260089 0.0667264976115 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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