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 deve

In recent years we have seen a paradoxical new trend in academics, i.e. the average grades of all students are now above 90% but the same students lack conceptual clarity about the very same subjects they have scored high in. This is in part due to the academic examination pattern which tests students more on theoretical knowledge, except for mathematics. However, the general notion remains that higher grades in academics equate to more intelligence. This dangerous correlation has created pressure on students to perform better than others in academic grades, students today face increased pressure from parents and peers to perform better. Ultimately, students are left with no choice but to mug up everything that is taught to them in hopes of scoring better grades in academic exams. The prompt here confirm the same and suggests that the race for high grades has compromised the quality of education at all levels of education. Undoubtedly, the position taken by the prompt is justified for the reasons that are as detailed below.

To begin with, academic performance has been taken as a component of graduate and undergraduate admissions. It is only very recently that standardized tests have been given more weightage for admission processes. Under the pressure to secure admission to a good university, many good students have been forced to just mug up the subject matter in favor of scoring high grades. Eventually, this lead to a situation where a lot of children who were admitted to universities could not keep up with the practical curriculum of graduate and undergraduate courses that has a high focus on practical knowledge. As a result, we are seeing a high unemployability in students with a strong academic background as they lack any real-world skills. This competition has compromised the level of education at all levels from school to college and universities because now children are being preprogrammed to parrot by heart subject curriculum and creativity is being increasingly shunned.

Secondly, the competition for high grades has created a situation where students are in great haste to cover all of the curricula and learn them by heart. Earlier, students used to freely engage in discussion and deliberate thoroughly about the subject matter to develop a clear understanding. Now we see that students at all levels are spending more time mugging up subject matter rather than spending time thinking deeply about the concepts that are discussed them making them devoid of practical knowledge at all levels of education. In a recent survey by Miranda, it was concluded that most students lacked a basic understanding of their subject matter when enquired about it in a different context but could still give sound definitions.

In conclusion, we can say that high competition has made our students vacuous and compromised education at all levels.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 110, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...re students are in great haste to cover all of the curricula and learn them by heart. Earl...
^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, except for, in conclusion, as a result, 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: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2424.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 465.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21290322581 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92953905899 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49247311828 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 762.3 704.065955056 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3910574843 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.666666667 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8333333333 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177131250673 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.064689787032 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0565692043371 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11766826898 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0183113246206 0.0667264976115 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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