Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use
specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Grades and marks have become the deciding criteria for judging a person's capabilities and laying the foundation by this statement, I disagree with the line that Grades encourage students to learn.
Firstly, grades and marks can be very discouraging. Being an above average student in class, I never ranked first in class and seeing my fellow classmates shine by scoring good grades was very saddening. A sense of lack of self worth is felt when the student is unable to reach to the standard set by the society. Eventually, this leads to the loss of interest in that particular subject, since he/she might give up after consecutively scoring low grades. Sometimes, instead of the society, the student itself sets his standards high, a competition with themselves. This practice is recommended and appreciated but can get self consuming and stressful because of wanting to over achieve.
Moreover, it is eliminates the fun and interest of gaining knowledge. Learning becomes somewhat of an obligation for passing and moving onto the next semester. This completely nullifies the motive of studying and the grades become an incentive for the students to mug up the text without really understanding the logic behind it.
Worsening the situation of creating incentives for studying and getting good grades is that, it is deemed as a requirement for getting admitted into reputed schools and colleges. The limit set for the grades is vital for the universities as it sets the tone for their college. Their identity can reach its apex if they admit remarkable students who fall into a certain Intelligence quotient group. Thus, the students end up slogging to get into one of such colleges, they ones with a lower IQ are unable to clear it and the ones with a good one are allowed. I am of the conviction that, if colleges teach students who already excel at what they do, then there is no scope left for the ones who want to learn something at which they are weak. Influx of smart people, will only make the others feel inferior with a lack of exposure to useful resources.
Hence, the judgement should be on the basis of logical reasoning and questions pertaining to the specific course that they are enrolling for, reducing some of the tension.
To conclude, I do not disagree with the educational system of testing the students occasionally, but instead of grading them, it could be made a little more interesting by altering the exams into quizzes and assignments. This could result in a more productive learning atmosphere, with coherence between the classmates. The sense of inferiority will be negated and can motivate them to excel at what they are good at.
Focus and diligence, augmented with hard work is achievable with students who are receptive to the knowledge imparted in schools, without the fear of being judged and categorised merely on numbers and grades.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'classmates'.
Suggestion: classmates
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...e that they are enrolling for, reducing some of the tension. To conclude, I do not dis...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, really, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 52.1666666667 140% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2410.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 482.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74711752059 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 212.727598566 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54979253112 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 750.6 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7899671155 48.9658058833 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.761904762 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9523809524 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.04761904762 5.45110844103 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.53405017921 154% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => 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: 0.198248321404 0.236089414692 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0580907445249 0.076458572812 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062655591278 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10799348481 0.150856017488 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0788939974911 0.0645574589148 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 86.8835125448 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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