Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

In recent times, there is a great debate about if the use of grades to qualify the academic development of students would benefit them or not to improve their learning. As far as I am concerned, I firmly believe that grades are necessary for a successful career. I feel this way mainly for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.

To begin with, I consider that the grades give an standard evaluation of the knowledge of a student that the teacher or professor would consider higher enough to pass or fail to a next level of study or graduation. For example, a student in medicine must demonstrates his skills and knowledge without any doubt considering that humans lives would be on his or her hands. On this token, I understand that only a mark could determinate the level of learning more precisely. When I was a student of biology I had to memorise a bunch of Latin names related with medicine plants. I did not dedicate the necessary time to study and of course I failed the exam. Consequently, I retook the exam with a longer and better preparation and finally I was approved. Some time later, thanks to remember the name of a medicine by heart I could save the live of a child who was having an allergic reaction to penicillin. Thus, if I would have wasted time looking in the data base for the product, those minutes would be fatal for the child. A low score in my exam during my studies encourage me to reinforce my knowledge and years late save a life.

Secondly, I believe that grades also invite group of students to improve their marks when they compare each other. For instance, if a child has a friend with good marks, this friend would like to help him to improve and would invite him to study more and learn better. My son experience is a good proof of this. During grade 5, his marks were not very high, but when the class receive the report card he could compare with others students. Then, he realised he was not as good as his friends and decide to improve to feel proud of himself and received the honours as they did. Later on, his marks improved and his learning quality increased considerably.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that grades are important to encourage the learning of a student. This is because is an excellent way to evaluate the knowledge of a student, and because influence a individual in a group to improve the way he or she learns.

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Average: 7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, of course, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 43.0788530466 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1971.0 1977.66487455 100% => OK
No of words: 435.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.53103448276 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57072145497 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508045977011 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 634.5 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.546206039 48.9658058833 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.55 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 5.45110844103 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151933780683 0.236089414692 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0503565940563 0.076458572812 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0475177098195 0.0737576698707 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100248415639 0.150856017488 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0116656502113 0.0645574589148 18% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 11.7677419355 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.99 10.9000537634 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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