TOEFL integrated practice 1

The reading passage introduces the graded school system in the US, which is divided into three parts: primary, intermediate and secondary schools. Each part of the system is carried out according to a certain age of students. Meanwhile, the professor in the lecture thinks that there are several issues existing in current school system.

First of all, the lecturer points out that the current school system is not good enough to respect the different characteristics of individual students. As students grow up, they will experience various changes in them such as social, mental and physical changes. In particular, girls and boys will be able to distinguish the physical differences between them when they enter secondary school and even before that. And the professor said that the current school system does not effectively handle this issue.

Also, in terms of evaluating a student's behavior, the current school system uses a method that requires students to repeat a year if the student's score is not desirable. The professor in the lecture argues that the students who repeats his or her year may not perform their studies well and easily get bored of classes. As a result, there is an increasing number of drop-outs among these students. Moreover, it is true that students get their education together in school as a group and the professor stresses that this makes it hard to evaluate every single student's performance carefully.

Thus, the professor in the lecture highlighted the problems of the current school system, which needs to be improved in order to allow students to receive a high-quality education.

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