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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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“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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

Many countries allow a variety of curriculums to be taught in their schools. For example, India has curriculums such as SSC, ICSE, CBSE, IGCSE, IB and many more. Many of these boards are of Indian-origin but a few are foreign ones too. The students and parents are given a choice of which ones they want to opt for. However, the prompt here contradicts this case where it suggests that choices should not be given to the students and they should be made to undergo a fixed "national curriculum". I mostly agree with the prompt although I do concede that students with a different level of Intelligence Quotient may not fit in well in such a system.

To begin with, the same curriculum will let all students be at par with each other, in terms of knowledge gained through the classes as well as financial spending on education along with the level of opportunities available after they complete their schooling. For example, one of the curriculums in Germany has schooling only until Grade 8 after which the students are required to shift to another school with a different course structure while the students already enrolled in the new school from their Grade 1 do not need this shift of curriculum. This makes the process for the students shifting to the new school difficult to cope up with the new system. In terms of the school fees, it depends on the school curriculum. So a some schools may charge only 2500 INR per year, whereas others with a different system may ask for almost 250000 INR per year. Hence, I feel following the same course sturcture will help equalise these differences.

Secondly, this change will let students study the important languages of the country which the international curriculums in the country may not be able to accomodate. For example, in Germany, German is the primary language. If the school agrees to follow a curriculum of the US, where the main langauge of instruction is English, it may lead to a problem as the German language may not be taught well. In the same way, India's national language is Hindi, but the international courses have their prime langauge as English, which eventually led India to have a vast majority of their population speak and understand English extremely fluently whereas they arent as fluent in their own native language, Hindi. Therefore, I believe that having such a currciculum will take into account these problems and can be customised.

However, not all students are the same. Some students have a lower IQ and some have a higher IQ than the normal average students. It may be unfair to them for their skill and knowledge development. For example, many students take time to understand concepts, hence an application based curriculum will suit them well where they can understand the use of the concept with pre- built examples rather than the theory itself. In contrast, students with higher IQ grasp things fast and will prefer to implement those things rather than just rote learning it.

In conclusion, the prompt discusses a very complex suggestion and does not have one definitive answer. Hence, I feel that although average students may be well- suited to such a curriculum, but students will varying IQs may be at a disadvantage.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 655, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...English extremely fluently whereas they arent as fluent in their own native language,...
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Line 9, column 209, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'vary'
Suggestion: vary
...to such a curriculum, but students will varying IQs may be at a disadvantage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, whereas, while, for example, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, as well as, to begin with, in the same way

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2694.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 549.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90710382514 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84053189512 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73489488543 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484517304189 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 821.7 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.5728441522 60.3974514979 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.25 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.875 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.70833333333 5.21951772744 148% => 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 : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208369366357 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0622976726263 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0450697566602 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116108449164 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338336133978 0.0667264976115 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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