Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.

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Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.

The statement here proposes that educational institutes should discourage students from studying in subjects they are not likely to succeed in. I do not agree with the statement at all. The first question we can ask here is how the institute can decide what is best for different students. Each student is different, one may be excellent in Science, other may be more inclined towards Commerce. There have been many people who have achieved incredible success in the very subjects they were supposed to be inadequate in. Thomas Edison was expelled from school with the label of being "addled", since he was not good at subjects like math and was not attentive in class. But when his mother home-schooled him, he went on to become one of the greatest inventors of his time.

Moreover, the decision to choose what to study should be of an individual, in which the school, college or university should not have a say. Even if the institute tries to decide that, how can it come up with a solution to decide for every student? There cannot be a generalized aptitude test that judges everybody's capabilities accurately. Devising such a test and conducting it for every batch of students, every year would not be very pragmatic. Of course, from a moral standpoint too, it is an individual's decision, and should not be based on somebody else's authority.

Then again, there is the issue of deciding which fields of study would result in better and high-paying jobs for the students, if not getting a good job is what is implied by the phrase "unlikely to succeed". The scope of different industries like medicine, engineering, scientific research, etc. keeps on changing all the time. There may be one field that is likely to generate more jobs at one point of time than another. What if the market gets hit by recession by the time the students finish their study? Even if it was in a more successful field, the students will have difficulty getting good jobs.

Nevertheless, it is possible that some students cannot decide what is best for them. In that case, they may turn to a counselor for help in choosing their subjects for them. So in my opinion, at best, the institutes can hire good and competent educational counselors for helping students out in their career- or study- related decisions. But it seems a little bit assuming and dictatorial to make this an obligation for such institutes.

Thus education institutions cannot and should not decide the subjects for their students, because not only is it difficult to apply, it is virtually impossible to find out what subjects are going to be more fruitful for the students in the long run.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... an obligation for such institutes. Thus education institutions cannot and shoul...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, then, thus, of course, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2220.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 455.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87912087912 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82995005552 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514285714286 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 698.4 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.7591230806 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5217391304 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7826086957 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.69565217391 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => 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: 0.222417860533 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.062093086456 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072616239819 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12092216562 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389995358252 0.0667264976115 58% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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