Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement A teacher s ability to relate well with students is more important than excellent knowledge of the subject being taught Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
A teacher’s ability to relate well with students is more important than excellent knowledge
of the subject being taught.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

There is no doubt that the ability of the teacher to relate well with students would be beneficial for students. However, I personally disagree that the ability of the teacher to connect to her students supersedes the teacher's knowledge of the subject she is teaching. There are many reasons for my argument which I will elaborate in the paragraphs below.

To begin with the point that students mostly do not enrol into advanced classes because they like the teacher but in fact they wish to study the subject well. In this situation, if the teacher is not well versed in her subject then the students would most likely lose interest in it. Of course my opinion is profoundly affected by my own personal experience. When I was in class 11, I enrolled for advanced trignometry classes as I had enjoyed studying trignometry in Class 10. To my dismay, the mathematics teacher was extremely kind but did not have a thorough understanding of the concepts and thus was unable to teach us. My grade 10 teacher in contrast was very strict but knew exactly how to explain the concepts to us. Clearly this example proves my position that simply creating a rapport with student will not interest them in classes.

Secondly, a teacher is not responsible for connecting with the students emotionally. A teacher has the responsibility of passing on the knowledge she has expertise of. To relate with the troubles of the students is the job for the counsellors of the school. Teachers are meant to teach their respective subjects to students well and to ensure that the concepts are clear. This doesn't mean that they necessarily have to be rude or strict but they should be able to discipline
their students. For emotional support the students should contact their assigned supervisors or counsellor. In my college, we were each assigned a counsellor who wasn't our teacher. If we faced any troubles or needed guidance we approached our counsellors while if we had any doubts in the subjects we were learning we approached our teachers. Therefore, its evident that teachers must fulfil their role of delivering the best knowledge they can while mentors must look out to connect to students so as to monitor their emotional standards.

Lastly, teachers are not awarded for being the best support of their students but in fact for the academic success of their students. In other words, even schools and colleges understand that a teacher is best judged by the fact that she can convey her knowledge well to her students and not that the teacher's students are extremely happy by her friendly and kind behaviour. For example, in my school, my English teacher won the best teacher award for consecutively 5 years. She was known to be extremely strict and harsh to students but was also encouraging to study and taught well. Everyone always hoped that they would be able to get her as their English professor. In short, even teachers are evaluated on their ability on being experts in their fields and successfully training their students also.

Thus I strongly believe that professors with excellent knowledge should be preferred than teachers who can relate well with students. As explained students wish to learn from their teachers and if they emotional support they can
talk to their mentors.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 219, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
... connect to her students supersedes the teachers knowledge of the subject she is teachin...
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Line 3, column 639, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'teacher' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'teachers'.
Suggestion: teachers
...hus was unable to teach us. My grade 10 teacher in contrast was very strict but knew ex...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 378, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...nsure that the concepts are clear. This doesnt mean that they necessarily have to be r...
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Line 6, column 163, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
... we were each assigned a counsellor who wasnt our teacher. If we faced any troubles o...
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Line 6, column 497, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...rs must look out to connect to students so as to monitor their emotional standards. L...
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Line 8, column 800, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...nd successfully training their students also. Thus I strongly believe that profe...
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Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...fully training their students also. Thus I strongly believe that professors with...
^^^^
Line 10, column 229, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s and if they emotional support they can talk to their mentors.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, lastly, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, for example, in contrast, in fact, in short, no doubt, of course, in other words, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 15.1003584229 192% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 75.0 43.0788530466 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 52.1666666667 136% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2738.0 1977.66487455 138% => OK
No of words: 555.0 407.700716846 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93333333333 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6789624003 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434234234234 0.524837075471 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 811.8 618.680645161 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6838702109 48.9658058833 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.407407407 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5555555556 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.51851851852 5.45110844103 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.53405017921 154% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.263526985129 0.236089414692 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0888603102888 0.076458572812 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725143612302 0.0737576698707 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153759043534 0.150856017488 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0950750607704 0.0645574589148 147% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 86.8835125448 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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