European School System and its drawbacks Q: Summarize the main points in lecture explaining how they cast doubt on the ideas in the reading passage? Hint: Reading Passage expresses about the European School System while the lecture expresses drawbacks of this school system. The lecturer tells us about the negative aspects of European School system. As in this system students are separated into grades by their age. A six year old individual gets admission in Grade 1. The lecturer said that every child has his/her own maturity level. Every individual child has his own readiness time. Some children get mature at the age of 4, while some at the age of 7. So we cannot admit all children in same grade at same age. Another drawback, lecturer tells us that in European School System if a student fails in one grade due to less score in some subjects, he has to repeat whole grade. The student has to study all the subjects again, even those subjects which he had passed. This cause frustration in children and they get dishearten. The lecturer tells that a research has shown that, this system has increased the rate of dropouts in school. The lecturer tells that European School System assess the group work while neglecting the individual effort. It causes the individual differences. Some students in group do well while the other do satisfactory, but the teacher only sees the whole group result. Because of this satisfactory students did not get proper teacher’s attention.