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You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic: Some people think that students in single-sex schools perform better academically. Others, however, believe that mixed schools provide children with better social skills for adult life. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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Nowadays there are people who still prefer same-sex schools justifying their answer on the student's academic level,
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 there are others who say that in a mixed ,institute
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 could learn other knowledge than academics which will be useful for their life as adults
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 as sharing and caring for each other. I believe more in
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 I will have a view from both sides. There are individuals who still think about going to a same-sex
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 will make the student a better and strong person and they will have better academic results just for the simple fact that there are no other girls or boys bothering around. I do not believe in
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 type of education even though many people do. A recent study shows that boys who went to a same-sex institution are shyer than others going to a mixed institute,
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 is basically because since they were kids never learnt how to share a classroom with the opposite sex.
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 mixed
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 can provide
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 with different areas to learn about not just the academic ones. It is well known that people who went to a mixed institution can face a conversation with the opposite sex without any problem.
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, there are studies showing that
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 prefer to go to
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 where they can share time with others than those of the same sex, finding
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 attractive and playful.
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 and my own experience going to a mixed
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, I totally can say that everything in mixed schools provides
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 with better skills other than academics.
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, there could be different options of which
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 should be or not better for kids but one thing is for sure and it is always necessary to think which option is better for our
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 and
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 their academic results and by forcing our kids to be in a place where we would have been it is not good for them as well.
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