Sample TOEFL essay: do you agree or disagree with the following statement? people should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing. use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

Life is not a bed, full of roses. Thus, we are vulnerable to experience such situations what we wish to avoid. So, sometimes we have to do works which we don’t want to perform. And in my opinion, to secure our future, social status, it is mandatory to perform such jobs, i.e. we have obligations to finish such works for personal, social and economic reasons.

To start with, let us discuss on personal reasons. When a baby is born in this world, it is his or her parents responsibility to bring the child up properly so that in future, the baby can become a responsible citizen of his country, b...

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Score: 26 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 390 350
No. of Characters: 1719 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.444 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.408 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.598 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.969 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.929 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.344 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.608 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.298 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5