Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: grades encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Grades are considered the most reliable measurement of a student’s ability to study well at school. Some people have the thought that grades encourage students to learn. On the other hands, grades are regarded to have an opposite effect on students. I am of the latter opinion. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, getting high grades causes huge pressure for many students. Nowadays, many schools make the students undergo too many tests. This is because most parents see tests as the correct result of their children’s performance at school. However, a substantial number of exams dramatically pressurizes students. There isn’t just enough time for them to study and absorb all of the knowledge that they had learned. Some students, fortunately, cope well with pressure, that being said, many of them fall apart and feel extremely despondent because of the overwhelming pressure. My own experience is a good example to illustrate this. The freshman year of high school was really tough for me. I had to get used to taking numerous test. During some weeks, there were three tests of different subjects that I had to take every day. I had no choice but to spend a few all-nighters, which exhausted me and caused me not to concentrate in class in the next day, to prepare well for all the exams since I would get into trouble if I had bad grades. It took me a considerable of amount of time to familiarize myself with the extensive amount of tests.
Furthermore, students may develop the bad habit of cheating to get good grades. Lots of parents take good grades for granted and feel that it is their children’s responsibility to pass exams with flying colors. Instead of motivating their children when they have bad grades, parents often harshly criticize them and sometimes severely punish them because they feel ashamed in front of other parents whose children have higher grades. As a result, the children, in their desperate times, use inappropriate measures, such as cheating in exams or just memorizing the concept without fully understand it. Consequently, they will only have the moderate knowledge of the lessons and in addition, they won’t have the basics of subjects. For example, in my country, Vietnam, parents are strict about their children maintaining the good grades. Many students become very afraid when they have bad grades so they start to learn to cheat in the exams although they know that they will be severely punished if they get caught. Moreover, students begin to forget about the real meaning of learning is knowledge, not grades.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that grades are not a perfect encouragement for students to study. I hold this opinion because grades cause pressure for students and students will learn to cheat and other bad habits to get good grades. Students ought to regard knowledge, instead of high grades, as their goal to learn.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'really', 'so', 'well', 'for example', 'i feel', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'such as', 'as a result', 'to begin with', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.203266787659 0.229887763892 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.172413793103 0.158761421928 109% => OK
Adjectives: 0.101633393829 0.0866891130778 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.05444646098 0.046263068375 118% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0725952813067 0.0685040099705 106% => OK
Prepositions: 0.128856624319 0.118717715034 109% => OK
Participles: 0.032667876588 0.0351676179071 93% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.67269444233 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0417422867514 0.0309702414327 135% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => More particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0725952813067 0.0887237588012 82% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0127041742287 0.0209618222197 61% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010889292196 0.0139019557991 78% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2994.0 2387.08602151 125% => OK
No of words: 495.0 408.028673835 121% => OK
Chars per words: 6.04848484848 5.86048508987 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.48200974243 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.363636363636 0.338922669872 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.274747474747 0.251872472559 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.179797979798 0.174417080927 103% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.107070707071 0.112833075102 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67269444233 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50101010101 0.524397521467 96% => OK
Word variations: 58.748624404 59.2087087015 99% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6684587814 135% => OK
Sentence length: 17.6785714286 20.5533526081 86% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1611977311 48.84282405 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.928571429 120.699889404 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6785714286 20.5533526081 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.642857142857 0.644075263715 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.54480286738 90% => OK
Readability: 45.1533189033 45.7405998639 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.21818181818 1.45489161554 84% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304925771307 0.300154397459 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0850781375746 0.103427244359 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0603608969322 0.0752933317313 80% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.441901400137 0.497263757937 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.128615190939 0.151897553556 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11457136619 0.114077575197 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065193874938 0.0781384742642 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.397756162599 0.336927656856 118% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0414153835838 0.067059652881 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246804013702 0.210909579961 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510002789775 0.0618886996521 82% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8870967742 59% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.86379928315 259% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.91756272401 224% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 8.42114695341 59% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 2.4623655914 406% => Less negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.75985663082 254% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 13.6433691756 161% => OK
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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