Practice writing and testing approaches

¶ … high school, students are taught that in order to get into a good college, they have to work hard and get great grades. However, research that has been conducted recently shows that there is very little difference between schools like Harvard and the local public state colleges. Although the former is much more expensive than the latter, this research indicates that the education that students receive is actually not showing that the more expensive school is better. In fact, the research indicates that the education students get at Harvard or other ivy-league schools is worse than the education you get at the cheaper school.

One of the reasons for this is that there is such a thing in more expensive schools as grade inflation. That means that a student gets a grade for an assignment or test, but is not scored as harshly in expensive schools as they would get in the less expensive schools. Since the students pay so much for their education, the teachers are encouraged to give the students better grades than they earn. So, that means that they are actually not doing as well in their classes as their grades indicate. This means that they are not getting as much out of their schooling as they think they are and that they will more than likely be less prepared for the real world than those who go to public colleges.

Whichever a person chooses to attend: public or private school, there is proven to be a decided advantage to students who do choose to go to college as opposed to those who don't. Students who go to college will get better paying jobs when they leave school than students who don't. On average, they make 30% more money that people who do not go to college.

Students in school have to do a lot of writing. They have to write for assignments such as essay and reports. They also have to write for tests and to apply for college. In some of these cases, the end result is important, such as in an application. However, under most circumstances, students should not be judged solely on the basis of the final draft that they turn into their professors or teachers. In most cases, the entire writing process should be graded, not just the last piece of work.

The first draft of a piece of writing is extremely important because it allows the person's ideas to get down on paper. It is important, but it is usually also very rough and the grammar or syntax may be very off. In subsequent drafts, the writer will fix errors in the first draft. They will add some information and remove other information. Drafts will be produced until the writer feels comfortable that their final draft is perfect and free from content, spelling, or grammatical errors.