A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Whether a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college could be weighed in many aspects. However, the condition of every student is varied.
Admittedly, the author claims might appear to have considerable merit. After all, requiring all students to study the same curriculum before they enter college could provide a clear examining standard for students. Since every student takes the same curriculum, it is thus easier for the nation to hold a national-wide college entrance exam without any ostentatious unfairness. Also, the professor can ensure what part of subjects have the students learned during their pre-college academy, and further help them improve and extend the content of these fields after they enter the college.
However, not all students are the same. The speaker fails to provide a precise litmus test for measuring "students". When we speak of students, the following can be put forth: students with talent in every field and students with the only talent in a specific subjects, i.e. science. Not surprisingly, students who have talent in every field could indeed perform better under this regulation, while those who are struggling against certain subjects may not.
It is thus justifiable to take both kinds of students into account, and we will find the statement problematic. Consider those who have extraordinary talent and insight in mathematics, but perform miserably in art and literature. If they are required to take all these subjects same as anyone else, we can already anticipate those students may have a high chance to face extraneous obstacles they are not supposed to deal with if they don't take these courses, and the consequential influence of these obstacles such as depression may outweigh the advantage they have in mathematics, and further cause their failure in national-wide college entrance exams.
In summary, this claim is not persuasive as it stands. Although requiring all students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college could allow the nation to assess it's students on a fair standard, not all the students are the same. If those students struggle against specific subjects and have little leeway to study these subjects, the result will backfire no matter how convenient these regulations benefit the nation.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
Whether a nation should require all of its stud...
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Line 7, column 436, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...y are not supposed to deal with if they dont take these courses, and the consequenti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, thus, while, after all, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 374.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3422459893 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81973898877 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 215.323595506 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508021390374 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 89.5124816716 60.3974514979 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.875 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.375 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.307014702519 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116418173684 0.0831039109588 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126179596057 0.0758088955206 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222577858981 0.150359130593 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111398430032 0.0667264976115 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
Whether a nation should require all of its stud...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 436, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...y are not supposed to deal with if they dont take these courses, and the consequenti...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, thus, while, after all, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 374.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3422459893 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81973898877 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 215.323595506 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508021390374 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 620.1 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 89.5124816716 60.3974514979 148% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.875 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.375 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.307014702519 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116418173684 0.0831039109588 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126179596057 0.0758088955206 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222577858981 0.150359130593 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111398430032 0.0667264976115 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.