Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

For most people, the ultimate goal of going to school is to acquire knowledge. There is no other way to achieve that goal than to understand ideas and concepts, instead of just learning facts. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, students will have to have greater results if they understand all ideas and concepts thoroughly. Nowadays, all tests of different subjects are designed to measure a student’s ability to understand the lessons and to apply that knowledge. Thus, those, students who are used to learn by heart all the facts are not likely to pass exams with flying colours. My personal experience is a good example to illustrate this. When I was in grade 8, I had some difficulties in studying Biology. I didn’t pay attention to the lessons and started to fall behind with them. As a result, I had no choice but to learn all of the theories and concepts to prepare for the final exam. I exhaustedly spent a few all-nighters to absorb all of the facts. Unfortunately, my result was terrible since the test required me to understand every concept in order to answer the questions.

Furthermore, if a student really understands ideas and concepts, he will know how to apply those into reality. According to my observation, students who seem to be greatly acknowledgeable often take to doing experiments and carrying out research. Therefore, they will stand a higher chance to get into a prestigious university since most renown universities seek for students who has experience of doing research and experiment. For instance, a former student of my high school gain lots of benefits from her extensive knowledge. Since she was a high school student, she always tried to understand everything she came across. With her profound knowledge, she decided to participate in ICEF competition, which is for students who have ideas for an innovation of numerous fields, and won a prize in the world final. With that result and her tremendous effort, she managed to successfully apply to Havard University.

Owing to all of the reasons mentioned above, I truly believe that students ought to understand ideas and concepts rather than just learn all the facts. Students should follow this advice because they will be able to get high results and they can apply their knowledge into reality if they understand what they learn.

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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'furthermore', 'if', 'really', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'as for', 'for instance', 'i feel', 'as a result', 'to begin with']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.211235955056 0.229887763892 92% => OK
Verbs: 0.177528089888 0.158761421928 112% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0629213483146 0.0866891130778 73% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0404494382022 0.046263068375 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0674157303371 0.0685040099705 98% => OK
Prepositions: 0.103370786517 0.118717715034 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0292134831461 0.0351676179071 83% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81940240446 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0696629213483 0.0309702414327 225% => Less infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.00224719101124 0.00188951952338 119% => OK
Determiners: 0.0921348314607 0.0887237588012 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0179775280899 0.0209618222197 86% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0202247191011 0.0139019557991 145% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2443.0 2387.08602151 102% => OK
No of words: 403.0 408.028673835 99% => OK
Chars per words: 6.06203473945 5.86048508987 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.48200974243 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.344913151365 0.338922669872 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.27047146402 0.251872472559 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.198511166253 0.174417080927 114% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.124069478908 0.112833075102 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81940240446 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.524397521467 103% => OK
Word variations: 61.0844046831 59.2087087015 103% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6684587814 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.1904761905 20.5533526081 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.6863382715 48.84282405 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.333333333 120.699889404 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1904761905 20.5533526081 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.571428571429 0.644075263715 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.54480286738 126% => OK
Readability: 46.2376225925 45.7405998639 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.20472440945 1.45489161554 83% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.439589135423 0.300154397459 146% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0935435436323 0.103427244359 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0622651073409 0.0752933317313 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.497011675707 0.497263757937 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.134013576984 0.151897553556 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17132770467 0.114077575197 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.081732188833 0.0781384742642 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.391914699815 0.336927656856 116% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0572714776489 0.067059652881 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.320378644944 0.210909579961 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0491866207831 0.0618886996521 79% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8870967742 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.86379928315 129% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.91756272401 163% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 8.42114695341 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.4623655914 122% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.75985663082 145% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 13.6433691756 103% => OK

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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