Do you agree or disagree with the following statement？
Grades (marks) encourage students to learn.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The development of our society raises a higher concern for education. While some people prefer not grading students’ homework or exams, I consider that marks will actually encourage students to learn.
Admittedly, grades will put extra pressure on students. Nowadays, students have already been choked with not only academic burdens, like doing experiments, preparing presentations, and writing the thesis, but also substantial personal issues, like the maintanence of friendship and dealing with attemptation from games and social media. Students will be compared with each other based on scores they get from schools, and those who are poor in academic may be extreme nervous and sad. There is no wonder that some students will be absent-minded now and then, and some even suffer from stress-related diseases, such as insomnia and depression.
However, this kind of pressure is essentially important to students. No one will succeed without devoting all energy. The pressure is just a way to force you work harder. A disappointing grade means one still need to work hard in some directions and one tend to devote all heart into it to improve the grades. Without pressure, nevertheless, students may be more relaxed during the semester, thinking they have already achieved their best in academic, and not until final exam will they find they are actually not that good, and it would be too late to compensate.
Moreover, by grading, students can better learn exactly how well they grasp the knowledge. A mark can subjectively states which level students are and what directions students should fight towards. One of my personal experience can serve as an example to illustrate that. In junior high, our math teacher took a month off for some personal issues. During that time, though there was another math teacher took his part, but the new teacher didn’t grade or even sometimes check our homework. Since we had no idea how good or bad we actually were, everyone in the class just gradually put less effort into homework, thinking as long as we listened carefully during the class, we would still do well in the final exam. As you could imagine, nearly half the class failed the exam as a result.
In conclusion, I advocate that grades will encourage students to learn.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 136, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...not grading students’ homework or exams, I consider that marks will actually enco...
^^
Line 5, column 194, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'mean'?
Suggestion: mean
... you work harder. A disappointing grade means one still need to work hard in some dir...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 116, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'state'
Suggestion: state
... the knowledge. A mark can subjectively states which level students are and what direc...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, then, well, while, even so, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1916.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 375.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10933333333 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67511461852 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.524837075471 114% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 618.680645161 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.6025946493 48.9658058833 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.842105263 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7368421053 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.47368421053 5.45110844103 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163605038808 0.236089414692 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536056410198 0.076458572812 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0612498465318 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12132423767 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0630436383148 0.0645574589148 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 136, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...not grading students’ homework or exams, I consider that marks will actually enco...
^^
Line 5, column 194, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'mean'?
Suggestion: mean
... you work harder. A disappointing grade means one still need to work hard in some dir...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 116, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'state'
Suggestion: state
... the knowledge. A mark can subjectively states which level students are and what direc...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, then, well, while, even so, in conclusion, kind of, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1916.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 375.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10933333333 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67511461852 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.524837075471 114% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 618.680645161 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.6025946493 48.9658058833 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.842105263 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7368421053 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.47368421053 5.45110844103 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163605038808 0.236089414692 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536056410198 0.076458572812 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0612498465318 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12132423767 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0630436383148 0.0645574589148 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.