Historically, schools in the US have borrowed the European system of school organization, a system that separates students into grades by chronological age. In general, children begin formal schooling at the age of six in what is referred to as the first grade. For the most part, students progress through twelve grades; however, some students who do not meet minimum requirements for a particular grade may be asked to repeat the year.
Graded schools are divided into primary grades, intermediate grades, and secondary grades. Primary education includes grades 1 through 5 or 6, and may also provide kindergarten as a preparation for first grade. Referred to as elementary school, these grades are usually taught by one teacher in a self-contained classroom. Intermediate grades begin with grade 6 or 7 and offer three years of instruction. At this level, teams of teachers may collaborate to provide subject-based classes similar to those offered in high school. Viewed as a preparation for high school, intermediate education is known as junior high school. At grade 9 or 10, secondary school begins. Classes taught by subject specialists usually last about fifty minutes to allow a student ten minutes to move to the next class before it begins at the top of the hour. At the end of twelve successful grades of instruction, students are eligible for a secondary school diploma, more commonly called a high school diploma.
Summarize the main points in the lecture, explain how they cast doubt on the ideas in the reading passage.
The reading delineates on the grading system in United States of America and how students are grouped together in a grade based on their chronological age. The lecturer, on other hand, presents his subverting points as to why the grading system is utterly flawed and needs to be reviewed. He brings out the holes present in the existing grading system and the way it is hampering the learning growth of individual students.
Firstly, the reading states that students should join primary school when they are six, but the lecturer goes on to explain why he is skeptical about this policy. He feels that some children become mature on their 4th or 5th birthday and can join the primary school earlier than those who are not mature then. He thinks that the grading system doesn’t account for the academic readiness of individual learners.
Furthermore, as per the reading, students are made to repeat a grade if they don’t meet the requirements. The lecturer feels this completely farcical as doing so can lead to boredom and drop outs among the students. She believes it doesn’t make sense to make a student repeat an entire grade just because he/ she has missed few subjects.
Lastly, the lecturer again questions the grading system, as mentioned in the reading, by positing that since different students will have their own learning rate, it is totally absurd to put them in the same grade. As some student, who learn slowly, would require to repeat the material, whereas, the students, who are fast learners, would wait for the new materials. This will halter the overall pace of the sole students.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 265, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'repeating'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: repeating
...tudent, who learn slowly, would require to repeat the material, whereas, the students, wh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, lastly, so, then, whereas, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1354.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97794117647 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54989144216 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.0120100628 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.833333333 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6666666667 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195644973231 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673747454145 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515672346039 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111761304019 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0514141973325 0.0443174109184 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 Out of 30
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