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

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

Education of the youth is what makes a country progress. This makes it imperative to have the best policies and educational system in place which can impart knowledge to our children, who would be the future of the country. I believe having different curriculums in different regions of the nation would hinder this process and I support the stance that a nation should require all its students to study under the same national curriculum.

In the first year of study at universities, the university curriculum is supposed to bring up the students from the skill level of high school to that required for an undergraduate program. Moreover students enrolling in most universities hail from a variety of different states and regions. If these students studied different curriculae in high school, their skill levels would vary and it would be hard for the university to judge an average skill level. Being optimistic and setting an expectation for students to know a lot when they join university would lead to lot of the students struggling to understand what is taught in lectures. On the other hand, being pessimistic and expecting very basic knowledge would bore those students who have learnt a lot more in high school itself and waste precious time and resources, both on part of the students as well as the university. This problem would be solved by having a national curriculum which would bring uniformity in the students' skill level.

Having a standard national curriculum across the whole nation allows students across different regions to be compared. Consider a university admissions committee which receives marks of students who did their schooling under different curriculae. One student might have done it from the central government's board while another could have done it under his state government's board. Since both of these boards would have different difficulties and styles of teaching, it would be extremely difficult to compare the marks these students scored, across these boards. Having one central board across the whole nation would solve this problem. The problem of comparing apples to oranges would be transformed into the problem of comparing two apples.

Many-a-times, the parent of a child going to high school gets a job in a different state. However, the family hesistates to re-locate since their child would have difficulty adjusting in school. The curriculum the child was studying earlier and the curriculum he would have to study in the new state could be vastly different and lead to many challenges in terms of coping with the new educational standards. Parents obviously do not want to inconvenience their child and wish his education to remain unaffected, and hence decline many opportunities of re-locating for jobs. The same holds for teachers. Re-locating across states would mean that high school teachers would have to get accustomed to a new curriculum, which would require quality time - time that could be otherwise spent on actually teaching and interacting with the sutdents. Having a national curriculum would remove this problem.

While a national curriculum would certainly be beneficial, it would be challenging to implement in a diverse country like India. Many states in India speak different languages and this is reflected in the state curriculae which teach the respective state's vernacular language. Thus a national curriculum would have to be designed in a way that students from different states can still learn the regional language.

To conclude, a standard national curriculum would have many benefits, if implemented properly. However care must be taken in countries like India where there is wide varierin regional languages across states.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: country progress
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... required for an undergraduate program. Moreover students enrolling in most universities...
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Message: Did you mean 'implementing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'challenge' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
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Suggestion: However,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, hence, however, if, moreover, so, still, thus, well, while, as well as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.4196629213 242% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3147.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 594.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29797979798 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93681225224 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8093813202 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454545454545 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 959.4 704.065955056 136% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3823026567 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.555555556 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92592592593 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218807109365 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0782317855685 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100098765603 0.0758088955206 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143097861577 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0764582633984 0.0667264976115 115% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => 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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