CBSE is an important educational body in India. It is in charge of deciding the curriculum and exams for students in classes 10 and 12. These exams are well-rounded and seek to assess a student’s mettle. The results of CBSE exams are also very important for getting admission into colleges and universities.
The thing is that students don’t have much trouble with the curriculum. They prepare for it well enough in their classes. But the bigger problem is their grammar. All CBSE exams (other than language subjects) are held in English.
English is not the first language of India. So, most students who are not proficient in English writing lose marks in exams due to bad grammar and poor articulation. Today, we are going to tell you about some tools that can help CBSE students improve their English grammar before their exams. Utilizing these tools will help them score better.
5 Best Grammar Checkers for CBSE Students
A grammar checker is a type of online tool that can help students detect grammar errors in their write-ups. Good grammar checkers also provide corrections and explanations for all detected mistakes. Using this feedback, students can learn about their mistakes as well as how to fix them.
In this article, we will tell you about five such tools. All of these tools are free in some capacity so that students can use them easily. Let’s check them out.
1. Grammar Check
The first tool on our list is called Grammar Check. Yeah, I know, pretty on the nose, but that’s how most of these tools are named. Anyway, Grammar Check is a free grammar checker that uses color coding to highlight and differentiate between different grammar errors.
As you can see there are three different colors, red signifies a typo, yellow shows a grammar error, and blue is for punctuation errors. In the very same image you can also see that when an underlined word is clicked, a small menu opens up that provides a contextually accurate correction. There is also an explanation for the error which will tell the student why it is considered an error in light of grammar rules.
There are no usage limits on this tool, and it provides some other useful features that make it easy to use. Students can upload their work from their devices as well as download the corrected version as well.
2. Sapling AI Grammar Checker
Sapling AI Grammar Checker is quite similar to Grammar Check. It also underlines the detected errors. However, there is no color coding this time. Clicking on the errors also opens a small dialogue box that shows the correction (contextually accurate). Clicking on it will apply the correction to the text.
You can see it in the provided image. Other things of note are the rich text formatting features available in this grammar checker. These were missing in the Grammar Check. They can help students avoid the unnecessary hassle of reformatting everything once they have checked and corrected it. There is no upload or download option, so students are stuck with the copy-paste option only.
3. Grammar
Yeah, once again, extremely on the nose, but as we mentioned before that’s kind of the way these things are named. Grammar can check a student’s work for three different types of errors.
It uses color coding to differentiate between spelling errors, general grammar mistakes, and wordy phrases. You can see this in the provided image.
Just like all the other grammar checkers, it also shows the explanation and correction for each mistake. Students only have to click on the colored words to see these explanations.
Other features of this tool include multilanguage support, a built-in rewriter, and a text-to-speech option that reads the text aloud. Once again, there are no options for uploading or downloading the text, so students will need to use standard copy-pasting.
4. Paper Rater
Paper Rater is a platform that provides various tools for proofreading. One of them is a free grammar checker. This tool uses color coding to differentiate between errors. Red color means there is a spelling error and green is for everything else.
The good thing about this tool is that it lets you select a class level, and it grades your paper accordingly. So CBSE students can select from 10, 11, or 12 classes to get results accordingly.
There aren’t other features such as file uploading or downloading though, so once again, students will need to rely on copy-pasting.
5. Punctuation Checker
The name may not say that other grammar errors are not checked, but this tool most definitely does detect all sorts of grammar errors. It functions differently than other tools on this list. All other tools would show the grammar errors and their corrections in one window.
This tool, however, shows the corrections in a separate menu. You can even choose to see only spelling errors, grammar errors, or suggestions. The default option is to show everything.
However, there is one downside. This tool sometimes does not understand the context and as such provides wrong corrections. So, be mindful of that when you decide to use it.
As you can see in the image, this tool also uses color coding, but unlike the other tools, you don’t need to click on the errors individually. Instead, they all show up on the side regardless.
Overall, it’s a well-rounded tool for students.
Conclusion
These were the five best grammar-checking tools for CBSE students that will help them to improve their English. All the tools are free to use and have great user interfaces, so students should have no problem using them. So, get out there and make the best of what these tools have to offer and ace your CBSE exams.
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