Writing Feedback / [IELTS TASK 2] Students should choose a university major that prepares them for high-paying careers. [2]

Students should choose a university major that prepares them for high-paying careers.

To what extent do you agree with this statement?

In recent times, more and more young people are choosing to enter tertiary education and some believe they should opt for a career choice that pays reasonably well in the future. I disagree as money should not be the primary concern when making this decision due to burnout rates and overpopulating certain fields.

To begin with, university students ought to look towards majors that they're interested in, as studying is no small feat, and lack of interest could cause failure and eventually dropping out. This is evident by the drastic increase in burn-out rates of students, particularly ones majoring in STEM fields, in IVY League schools across America over the past decade. This is usually due to the fact that most of them give up being unable to keep up with the course load as they entered for the wrong reasons.

Moreover, another point to consider is the scarcity of young people studying other majors that may not have a sure job prospect in the future, but nonetheless, are much needed professions, such as the arts. Not only does this create a lack in these areas, but also creates unnecessary competition and overcrowding for these high-paying type of degrees. In Sudan for instance, medicine has seen an exponential growth in the number of students applying, so in turn, graduates ended up finding themselves competing with thousands. In other words, some of these newly graduated doctors, who expected to be greeted with a wide array of jobs upon graduating, were not only left broke, but also jobless.

In conclusion, even though it seems optimal to apply for a university major that constitutes to a high paying salary, I disagree with this notion as starting a degree doesn't necessarily mean you'll finish it, and individuals need to be equally distributed among various fields.

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Writing Feedback / [IELTS TASK 1] The table below gives information about student enrolments at Manchester University.. [3]

student enrolments in one british university

The table below gives information about student enrolments at Manchester University in 1937, 1967 and 2017.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table shows information about the enrolments of Manchester University students for the years 1937, 1967 and 2017.

Overall, 2017 had the greatest number of pupils enrolled out of the three years, while the least amount of students attending the university was in 1937.

To begin with, 1937 had only 327 in new admissions, followed by 1133 admissions in 1967 and 6254, being the most recorded enrolments, in 2017. Moreover, in both 1937 and 1967, the percentage of males were higher than females at 55% and 65% respectively, whereas this changed in 2017 with females making up 55 per cent of the proportion.

With regards to the previous whereabouts of students; in 1937 over half of students studying at this tertiary institution were from at most 40 miles from Manchester. In contrast, this number decreased substantially in 2017, with only 1 to 2 per cent of students actually residing nearby. Indeed, the number of foreign nationals attending increased drastically to constitute about a third of the pupils for the year 2017, although it was only approximately 7% for the years of 1937 and 1967.

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