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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

Some expert believes that learning facts is more important for students. They cite that this will make them more accurate. However, I strongly disagrees and believes that understanding ideas and concept is more important. I will support this in the following passages.
First of all, the concepts always remain same while the idea my get changed. For example, understanding the primary cause for the extinction of an endangered species is more important than knowing the number of animal that get extinct or died in a specific period. Without the concept of extinctions, these numbers are of no use. As time period change, the fact about how many died or got extinct become irrelevant. In case of this example, concept of what factors caused such changes is more important and based on that, on e can take precautions accordingly. So, I think that understanding concept or idea is more important.
Second, understanding idea lead to improvisation. For example, by understating the idea of how a motor engine work, an engineer can develop more efficient and powerful engine. Knowing facts will only need to lead to details to how big, how powerful, or how efficient engine only. Without understanding the idea, it is not possible to bring change or develop something better. It gives us a optimistic behavior and in return we work more efficiently.
Although there are many people who argue that facts are more important to know to practically work on ideas and concepts, I still agree with the statement that ideas and concepts are more important to understand than learning facts. To conclude, the idea of more importance between understanding ideas and concepts, and learning facts is very complex.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 144, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[1]
Message: The pronoun 'I' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'disagree'
Suggestion: disagree
...them more accurate. However, I strongly disagrees and believes that understanding ideas a...
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Line 3, column 389, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...r develop something better. It gives us a optimistic behavior and in return we wo...
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Line 4, column 183, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he statement that ideas and concepts are more important to understand than learni...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, however, if, second, so, still, while, for example, i think, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 52.1666666667 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1426.0 1977.66487455 72% => OK
No of words: 280.0 407.700716846 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09285714286 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.48103885553 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86782823326 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 212.727598566 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.535714285714 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 447.3 618.680645161 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.178511075 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.8823529412 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4705882353 20.6045352989 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 5.45110844103 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => 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: 0.388182791802 0.236089414692 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124200057789 0.076458572812 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0854197505799 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244098620952 0.150856017488 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0833828431068 0.0645574589148 129% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 11.7677419355 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 86.8835125448 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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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