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If you have any comments on this essay, please share them =) Topic: Arguement: The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station. "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs." Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted. First of all, it should be necessary to check if during the discussed time period, viewers complaints were concerned with the quality, and not the quantitiy, of weather and local news. Perhaps, viewers were concerned with unreliable weather forecasts and too shallow coverage of local news, rather than with the time given to these programms in the station's curriculm. Secondly, regarding the cancelled advertisment, the busniess manager should have revised local businesses for the reasons they canceling the contracts. This could happen due to overall plunge in business activity in the region. Another possible reason could be that business managers found new more efficient ways for advertising - perhaps, through internet. Finally, it is not clear whether restoring the time devoted to the mentioned programs will really attract more viewers and stop leakage in revenues from contracts with local businesses. If people found another source of reliable weather forecast and suitable for them local news coverage source, and if businesses found more efficient way of advertising, the discussed television station will not be able to avoid mentioned problems with simply restoring the weather and local news time.

Hello everyone. I've read other essays on this topic on urch before posting mine. It looks similar to other essays, but still I would like to check how well/poor I'm prepared for GRE. I'd be glad, if anyone could help me with suggestions to imrpove my essay. Or, this could be just another example of essay on this topic for other students preparing for GRE. ;) Topic: A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position. My essay: I completely agree with the suggestion that similar basic level of education should be provided for the whole population. Government’s control over pre-college education is important for providing balanced distribution of primary education. First of all, all the school should be providing the same level of education so that not to depreciate the value of education in specific schools. Otherwise, schools with intense teaching curricula will be giving considerable advantage to their alumni entering college. Moreover, this would create difficulties to the populations of specific districts with schools with not so intense curricula: parents willing to give their children to well-teaching school will not be able to do so because of difficulties of transporting their children. Secondly, in terms of mobility, the same national curriculum would make both teachers and students be able to move to other districts of the country without causing difficulties in finding a school with the same curriculum. Finally, there can be a slight exception from this holistic approach, namely “special” school, aimed at particular types of students, such as students suffering difficulties when studying or, in contrast, very bright students. However, usually the number of such students, according to the bell-curve, is not sufficient. Hence, the same national curriculum for the rest of the nation’s students will be still required.