Agree or disagree with the following statement:Standardized tests like the TOEFL provide sufficient information to determine whether students should be admitted to a college or university.

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Agree or disagree with the following statement:
Standardized tests like the TOEFL provide sufficient information to determine whether students should be admitted to a college or university.

International students who want to study in English speaking country tests as TOEFL and IELTS are required. These kinds of tests measure English proficiency, but I think that they are inaccurate for admitting to a college or university because they do not provide sufficient information for the students and their ability.

Firstly, these standardized tests may be unreliable for determining English level because of it dependent on the personal situation on the test day. For example, my friend got sick on the test day and her points were lower than she expected. She took the test again and she got higher scores. Usually, people who take one of these tests for the first time they feel more stressed and cannot concentrate which is a reason why they got a low score.

Secondly, these tests do not determine students intellectual and logical ability. Someone can be very good at math, but in English can be bad. In my opinion, students like these should be admitted to a university. A good mathematician or physicist does not need an advanced level of English because their job most of the time is related to numbers and formulas. Furthermore, if a student has a good intellectual background he could improve their language skills through studies.

Finally, universities to make a right choice need to look high school background and other abilities. In addition, selection to be more accurate universities should make tests with fundamental information from every study programme. Moreover, if students provide certificates and awards it will be easier for a selection committee to make a choice.

In conclusion, standardized tests as IELTS or TOEFL do not provide sufficient information for students to be admitted to university or college.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, as to, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 52.1666666667 54% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1475.0 1977.66487455 75% => OK
No of words: 285.0 407.700716846 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17543859649 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96198547537 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 212.727598566 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550877192982 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 618.680645161 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3019235495 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.3333333333 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6666666667 5.45110844103 196% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.309908450834 0.236089414692 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111868581056 0.076458572812 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102513718569 0.0737576698707 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195534098684 0.150856017488 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0873629148697 0.0645574589148 135% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 86.8835125448 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200

Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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