People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
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These guys let you submit 1 essay a day on their free membership and unlimited essays a day on their paid one.
Another service that I learnt of just recently was Free Online GRE AWA Essay Grader - MBA Crystal Ball which I think is pretty cool. It’s automated (go NLP!) but very reliable for an estimate. You don’t need to include the topic but simply copy-paste your essay into the checking space, which is both a good and a bad thing IMO. I tried out out 4 of my practice essays (2 Argumentative and 2 Issue) and had scores of 5.3, 5.4, 4.7, 5.5 which gave me a mean score of 5.225 (and that’s very close to my actual AWA score of 5.0)
You get unlimited tries on both paid as well unpaid versions, with the difference being that the unpaid version simply gives you a score between 0–6 while the paid version breaks down your score and grades your essays according to its Readability, Coherence and Organization. Either way, I think it’s a pretty great piece of software and would definitely recommend it.
The GRE analytical writing is a small but important component of the test that troubles many international test takers. We’ve had several candidates asking us:
• “How can I rate my GRE AWA essay for practice?”
• “Can I download a free GRE essay e-rater?”
Well, there are a few paid options offered by some test prep companies. But not much out there that’s free and a close approximation of the real deal. So we created this free essay grader for GRE essays.
Conceptualized and developed by Sameer Kamat, the software uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) principles and our understanding of how AWA essays are evaluated. We know it’s far from perfect, since no automated essay grader can accurately do (yet) what the trained human brain can. But we hope it’s better than having no feedback at all on your practice AWA essays during the GRE preparation journey.
Grade my GRE Essay
There is no software to download. You can use our free online GRE essay immediately. All you need to do is:
1. Type or paste your GRE essay in the box below.
[Wait for the text box to load. If it’s taking too long, refresh the page.]
2. Click on the ‘Check’ button
3. Your essay grade along with the breakup across 3 dimensions (Structure, Readability and Coherence) will be displayed.
Here’s a brief introduction to the various sub-topics that our online essay evaluator covers:
Organization: This checks the attributes related to the building blocks of GRE essays i.e. attributes related to the words, sentences and paragraphs in the AWA essay.
Readability: This tests (using industry standard metrics) how easy it is for the reader to grasp what you have written. Try to maintain a balance between the over-simplistic and the hard-to-comprehend approach.
Coherence: This goes into the nuances of natural language processing and evaluates how you have connected the building blocks using the appropriate English language constructs.
For the free version here, we just show the final rating. For the premium version (available only to test prep companies for now), we include additional insights on the evaluated essay. If you manage a GRE coaching class and would like your students to access the premium version, drop us an email: info [at] mbacrystalball [dot] com
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: out
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, well, while, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2858.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 568.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03169014085 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88187981987 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96670699241 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 312.0 215.323595506 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549295774648 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 858.6 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 90.1034835903 60.3974514979 149% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.071428571 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2857142857 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.17857142857 5.21951772744 23% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 19.0 4.97078651685 382% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.00529651133057 0.243740707755 2% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0014971079125 0.0831039109588 2% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.00596064738731 0.0758088955206 8% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00236376636915 0.150359130593 2% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00735991867855 0.0667264976115 11% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 100.480337079 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.