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

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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.

The given issue states that if all the students should study the same national curriculum until they enter college. This issue has been bothering education planners since decades. Since schools(pre college) play a vital role in the deveopment of a student's life and implementing different school curriculms in difficult for a country like India, I agree to the issue as long as the curriculum has all the basic subjects that need to be studied by a student.

First, a student in school has no idea what he/she will be interested in durin g their schooldays. Lot of career choices with little knowledge of each of them can lead the students to take wrong decisions. Hence, it is required that a student study all the basic subjects that will help him choose a proper career that will be suitable for him. By the time the student finishes grade 12, he will have a clear idea of where his interests lie and can choose his subjects of interest in college. Moreover, the student has to be moulded into a well rounded personality, which places a greater responsibility on the pre-college education. A student whose interests lie in science and research, will still have to pay tax and know about the finance and economics, at least the basics. Or a arts student who has a passion for law still needs to know basic math and calculations to manage day to day transactions. A person pursuing his Ph.D in any field will still need to know basic language skills, words to present his thesis in a effective manner. Hence the national pre college curriculum should cater to all these requirements.

Further, implementing a uniform national curriculum has the ease of implementation. If different students study different subjects, the volume of subjects in the curriculum will be too much and catering to all the students will be difficult. In a country like India, with a population of 1.32 billion, which has a literacy rate of 75%, it will be infeasible to implement specialised curriculum. Moreover, the target to achieve 100% literacy rate will have more importance over specialised school curriculum. Additionally, studying in a unfiorm curriculum will place all students on an equal plate with no discrimination when they enter college. Colleges can , in fact, cater to the customised needs of students.

Finally, one can argue that the student is wasting time and resources in studying subjects that he will not pursue in his career, and will lose focus if the nation follows a uniform national curriculum in school. This is definitely true, but as stated, the goal of the school education should be the development of an all rounded personality that will make the student independent enough to take wise career decisions on his own. This has extra advantage, that will help the student to discover where his exact passion lies if he studies all the subjects. Sacchin Tendulkar, the famous Indian cricketer is an exaple of this. He chose cricket as he was good at it and bad at math. What would have happened if he was exposed only to math? India would have missed a sports legend.

Hence, I do support the issue that a nation has to follow a uniform national pre college curriculum provided that all the students learn basic subjects that will turn them to independent, well rounded personalities and choose where their real passion lies before they start college and contribute to the society in a solid way.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, if, moreover, so, still, well, as to, at least, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2835.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88793103448 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76481153592 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462068965517 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 877.5 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.3475808096 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.038461538 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3076923077 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.19230769231 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 7.80617977528 154% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => 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: 0.222484134815 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715192234367 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.081013107285 0.0758088955206 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149739482132 0.150359130593 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520520930845 0.0667264976115 78% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => 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: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => 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: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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