ETS OFFICIAL IBT TEST-5(SMART CARS)
The passage introduces the topic of smart cars which are soon expected to take over the traditional cars. The writer explains how the smart cars have many benefits; making driving easier and safer. The lecturer disagrees. He states that smart cars have their own disadvantages and attacks each of the claims introduced in the passage.
First, the author says that smart cars are safe. The reading passage states, this is due to various sensors and automatic programs that do a better job than humans in avoiding accidents. However, the professor believes there are flaws in author’s position. He contends that even if smart cars meet all the technological expertise, they will still get into some accidents which may be dangerous as compared to the accidents in current times. She goes on to say that most of the technologies sometimes fail and because smart cars will be driving close to each other, it will increase the risk of piling on meeting an accident.
According to the writer, smart cars will contribute in reducing the traffic on roads because they will have higher speed. The speaker, on the other hand, points out that as the speed of smart cars increases, convenience will also increase; promoting more number of drivers on the roads. This will in turn lead to traffic congestion. Therefore, commuting time may not reduce.
Also, the reading passage notes how smart cars will reduce cost of driving; they are programmed to take direct routes leading to less wear and tear of parts such as brakes and tires. The lecturer rebuts the argument and says that even new complex technology employed in smart cars is expensive as compared to traditional technology, currently used. She goes on to highlight that due to such smart technology involved in the cars, even small repairs will be costly in comparison to repairing the simple mechanical parts used today.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 199, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1563.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99361022364 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54272156224 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565495207668 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5962004097 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6875 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5625 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212382947135 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0788862366798 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0615056643723 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14560867508 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322065755218 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.7273730684 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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.