IELTS essay practice 1

Some people think students should take courses that are decided by the government. Others think students should be allowed to focus on subjects that they prefer. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.


Nowadays, courses students take at school are generally decided by government. Courses which cover a wide range of subjects, ranging from basic reading and writing skills to how to build a power supply station. The aims of the government are to develop students’ abilities to deal with all kinds of problems they will come across in their future life, to provide as much learning as details of what the real world is as possible, to make students better citizens. However, not every student is interested in how to build a power supply station, so given choice, there may be insufficient participants could become insufficient in those kinds of courses. Another negative side is that those government-decided courses could be outdated because of the rapidly changing society.

On the other side/hand, if students are allowed to focus on subjects that prefer, they could really achieve great success on subjects they prefer due to their boosted interests, but then they would could know nothing of subjects they are not familiar with as well. Society now updates/is changing continuously and quickly regularly and fast, one without knowledge in many aspects could end up left behind failure in some ways, which we can see this kind of case in our daily life frequently. So the self-chosen focusing degree should be controlled.

In my opinion, both sides of views are sensible, but the balance matters most. Students should generally take courses decided by the government and have some degree of freedom to focus on their personal preferences favorite ones.