Before an important exam, do you think it is better to prepare for a long time or only for a few days? Give examples and reasons to develop your opinion.

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Before an important exam, do you think it is better to prepare for a long time or only for a few days? Give examples and reasons to develop your opinion.

Some assert that it is easy to prepare for an important exam only for a few days, as the ideas are still fresh in mind. Others, conversely, argue that the brain cannot memorize tons of information at once. Yet, which strategy is better? As far as I am concerned, I posit that it is more advisable to study for a long time prior to an important exam because it will be easy to memorize things studied at steps. Moreover, it helps to attenuate the anxiety caused by the closeness to an exam. Finally, time can be better managed.

First, by starting to studying a long time in advance, the content seen would be hardly forgoten. For example, when I was at high school, I remember starting to study for a hard subject one month before the exam. When the test day arrived, I was sure about the answers because they were already established in my mind. On the other hand, the next semester I decided to study only for a few days before another subject, as consequence I performed really bad on the exam. I could not remember the topics I had studied and I had to struggle with my mind trying to remember simple things. So, while dedicating fewer time in preparation to an important exam resulted in a poor outcome, studying for a long time in advance helped me to achieve a higher grade.

Also, it helps me not to be anxious about the test. For instance, everytime I studied for an exam close to its due date, I used to be very anxious. This anxiety only harmed my hability to learn and memorize the topics and as time went by. I was getting more and more overwhelmed. Because of this frustration, studying only few days before an exam is not advisable in my point of view.

Finally, we study at a slow pace and save time to other activities. Whenever I started to study for an exam a long time before it, I could organize my schedule better. I also had time to go out with friends, to go to the cinema and even to relax once in a while. I could learn things with more confidence and not worry about taking a day off whenever I felt I needed. Because of this flexibility, there is no doubt studying for a exam long before it is advantageous.

As I have illustrated, I contend that it is better to prepare for an important exam for a long time before it as it is easier to memorize the topics, it prevents anxiety and it gives us more time to enjoy other activities. Everyone should start to prepare for exams for a long time in advance. They will definitely feel more confident about it.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, first, moreover, really, so, still, while, for example, for instance, no doubt, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2030.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 464.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.375 4.8611393121 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51384025664 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 212.727598566 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450431034483 0.524837075471 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 684.9 618.680645161 111% => 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: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9915264568 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.2 100.406767564 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.56 20.6045352989 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.96 5.45110844103 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.396438114677 0.236089414692 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123934220624 0.076458572812 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113533523466 0.0737576698707 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.271029404185 0.150856017488 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0643683579348 0.0645574589148 100% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 11.7677419355 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.12 10.9000537634 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.01818996416 90% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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