A nation should require all of it’s students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

Designing education policies for a nation is an important task for any nation as education is the foundation for leading a meaningful life and appreciating things around us. While keeping the same curriculum would help evaluating students based on a common criteria, extending the same curriculum till students enter college might prove counterproductive beyond a certain grade.

Basic knowledge of important subjects in absolutely indispensable in our lives. The curriculum of a school education system should be designed in such a way that students get exposure to all the necessary subjects they will need sooner or later in their lives. For example, we need basic arithmetic knowledge in even the seemingly mundane activities that we do such as, counting change at a grocery store, understanding what the body-mass-index ratio actually means etc. A common curriculum will uniformly impart necessary knowledge which we often take for granted in our day to day lives.

Another reason for keeping all students under the same umbrella could be that interests take time to develop. A student who dreaded biology in early school years might go on to become a succesful surgeon later and the reason for that could be the guidance he/she got when they were ready to exploit the same. In India, we have a common curriculum till grade 10 and then the students are allowed to choose their major subjects of study for the remaining two years of school education before college which, in my view, is perfectly fine provided the education till grade 10 prepares the student to discern his/her areas of interests when they are required to make a choice.

Having stated the advantages of same coursework, it should be noted that by the time students come to a stage where they are supposed to select their line of study in college, it would be better if they are equipped with at least some fundamental knowledge about their prospective career. A student choosing civil engineering as his major should not base his decision upon simply the awe we feel while seeing megastructures documentaries on National Geographic. He must be aware that an engineering coursework involves advanced mathematics and whether he is actually interested in same. Providing a lenient coursework in, say, the latter two years of school education land students with a lucid understanding of what exactly their intended career demands.

To sum up, a common curriculum till a certain grade in school will serve as a foundation for all-round development of students, on the other hand, having exposure to their prospective subjects of study, in later years of schooling itself, will make them choose their careers wisely.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 220, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to evaluate' or 'evaluate'.
Suggestion: to evaluate; evaluate
... keeping the same curriculum would help evaluating students based on a common criteria, ex...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 258, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'criterion'?
Suggestion: criterion
...p evaluating students based on a common criteria, extending the same curriculum till stu...
^^^^^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'at least', 'for example', 'such as', 'in my view', 'to sum up', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.247863247863 0.240241500013 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.15811965812 0.157235817809 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102564102564 0.0880659088768 116% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0320512820513 0.0497285424764 64% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0641025641026 0.0444667217837 144% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.134615384615 0.12292977631 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0534188034188 0.0406280797675 131% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.85487106124 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.025641025641 0.030933414821 83% => OK
Particles: 0.00213675213675 0.0016655270985 128% => OK
Determiners: 0.0982905982906 0.0997080785238 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0299145299145 0.0249443105267 120% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.017094017094 0.0148568991511 115% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2693.0 2732.02544248 99% => OK
No of words: 438.0 452.878318584 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.14840182648 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.390410958904 0.366273622748 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.287671232877 0.280924506359 102% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.221461187215 0.200843997647 110% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.141552511416 0.132149295362 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85487106124 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 219.290929204 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518264840183 0.48968727796 106% => OK
Word variations: 59.2725979007 55.4138127331 107% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6194690265 68% => OK
Sentence length: 31.2857142857 23.380412469 134% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.7660296102 59.4972553346 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 192.357142857 141.124799967 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.2857142857 23.380412469 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.785714285714 0.674092028746 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 60.0528375734 51.4728631049 117% => OK
Elegance: 1.71428571429 1.64882698954 104% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35316691634 0.391690518653 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.119184081496 0.123202303941 97% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0855208694106 0.077325440228 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.587978143946 0.547984918172 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.165332720487 0.149214159877 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135272248639 0.161403998019 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0872321841194 0.0892212321368 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.277507899281 0.385218514788 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.089269144195 0.0692045440612 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21625548187 0.275328986314 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0453230897218 0.0653680567796 69% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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