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

The prospect of require a strict progression of classes has recently drawn attention in nations attempting to improve their education systems. By requiring that all students take the same classes, countries believe that it might be easier to prevent students from falling behind. Critics of the idea argue that by restricting the classes that are offerd, students will not have the freedom to pursue their own passions and interests. Therefore, nations should require a standard curriculum for students until they enter high school, and at that point, students should have the free will to decide which classes to enroll in.

By instituting a national curriculum, a country can efficiently ensure that none if its students are being left behind academically. With a standard set of required classes, students will all be taught the same material at all schools. This will allow the nation to mass produce the required books which will reduce the cost of those textbooks for the schools. This will help prevent poorer schools from lacking the necessary materials. Additionally, with a set group of courses, teachers can be better trained to teach that material at the national level. By having a standardized teaching method, all teachers will be better able to instruct their students. Overall, by improving teachers' abilities and reducing the cost of books, students' learning will dramatically increase.

On the other hand, an national curriculum prevents students from studying material they find interesting. Every pupil will have different interests and abilities, so they should have the choice to select classes that interest them. However, students need to be sufficiently responsible in order to select classes that will down the road ultimately benefit them. To address that point, students should only gain the freedom to select classes in high school because by that point, they will have already gained a broad understanding of enough topics to intelligently choose subjects to pursue. Thus students will have the ability to choose their own classes around the time when they are mature enough to select the best classes for them.

Finally, enacting a required national curriculum until high school will better allow colleges to create entrance exams that are more fair. All students will have the same general background knowledge because they all had to take a standard progression of classes until high school. College admission officials then would be able to capitalize on this feature to better craft admission examinations because students possess a similar background. This new examination will prevent students from being unfairly biased against because their school focused on different material. As an added benefit, this new examination will more efficiently separate students into their schools. Overall, by requiring a standard curriculum, students will be more fairly prepared for university entrance examinations.

By enacting a law to require a nationwide curriculum until high school, countries will better prevent students from falling behind while still giving students the freedom to engage with subjects they desire. This compromise gives the best of both worlds by ensuring all students have a similar broad background while also not squashing students' attempts to test their interests. Ultimately, the biggest question of this program's success will be based on the classes that are selected as part of the required curriculum.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 20, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...tically increase. On the other hand, an national curriculum prevents students f...
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Line 5, column 593, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ntelligently choose subjects to pursue. Thus students will have the ability to choos...
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Line 9, column 421, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'programs'' or 'program's'?
Suggestion: programs'; program's
...ltimately, the biggest question of this programs success will be based on the classes th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, of course, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 12.4196629213 225% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => 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: 2936.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 539.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44712430427 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69716956939 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452690166976 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 872.1 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.6474426963 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 117.44 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.56 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 10.2758426966 214% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.326143629684 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109572840034 0.0831039109588 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870417761929 0.0758088955206 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217036246546 0.150359130593 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0668999674665 0.0667264976115 100% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.1639044944 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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