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Are difficult experiences valuable lessons for the future?

Life is full of challenges. Wether you are born with a silver spoon or without any, there are meant to be happy and sad moments on everyone's road to success. However, the sad moments can play a significant role in our lives if properly handled. In my opinion, I believe that one can gain tangible knowledge through difficult situations. The reason why I feel this was is what I will explore in the following essay.

First of all, a hard moment could be valuable tool to teach us independence and strengthen us to overcome more difficult situation in the long run. If an individual would be resilient and not waiver, he will build up strength to withstand life challenges that may occur in the future. My personal experience is a compelling example to illustrate this. For instance, I lost my mum two months after I got admission to the tertiary institution and my academic almost came to a halt. She was the one who used to shoulder the responsibility of my late father. Receiving the information of her demise from my elder brother, a huge feeling of hopelessness rose out of me and I already knew that I should be prepared for the worst that life would bring on my way to success. Things became so hard that it was reasonable for me to drop out of school. However, I engaged myself in menial jobs off campus to support my academics inasmuch as the extended family members would not give a helping hand. Gradually, I learnt to become strong and cater for my needs all by myself. Due to the home lesson service I offered to high school students, I came across a professor who hired me to prepare his son for the university's enterance exam. The professor noticed my fidelity and persistence, he got so much interested in me and offered me a scholarship for the rest of my studies. Had I given up on my academic dream because of my mum's demise, I wouldn't have enjoyed the benefits of becoming self dependent and studying without having to worry about tuition fees.

Secondly, bitter experience could be a stepping stone for us to attain greater success if adequately managed. For example, I worked with a construction company immediately after I graduated from the University. Although I was earning quite lower than I should but I had to manage the pay because it was hard to get a job those times. Meanwhile, the time came that company's management wanted to promote some workers based on aptitude paper based test. I wrote the test and aced it accordingly. However, clear evidences showed that my score was switched in favor of a young man who was the Manager's nephew. So, he was promoted instead. This experience was another huge blow that life threw at me but I had to move on with my work for the company without compromising my level of diligence. Little did I know that I was about to hit a jackpot. As life would have it, the chief executive officer of the company got to know about how I was denied of my promotion and he summoned an urgent meeting for a review. Eventually, the manager who switched my score for her nephew's was relieved of her position and I was promoted to become the managing director.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that hard moments can teach us important future lessons. This is because bitter experiences can make us strong, independent, and attain greater success.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, first of all, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 86.0 43.0788530466 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 52.1666666667 142% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.0752688172 198% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2725.0 1977.66487455 138% => OK
No of words: 587.0 407.700716846 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64224872232 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9222030514 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72927260489 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 315.0 212.727598566 148% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536626916525 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 883.8 618.680645161 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6003584229 146% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3271800241 48.9658058833 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.8333333333 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5666666667 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 5.45110844103 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160026982513 0.236089414692 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0377754663806 0.076458572812 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0393314755808 0.0737576698707 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0828993096334 0.150856017488 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364756100889 0.0645574589148 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 11.7677419355 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 86.8835125448 155% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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