GRE Issue: True success can be measured primarily in terms of the goals one sets for oneself.

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GRE Issue: True success can be measured primarily in terms of the goals one sets for oneself.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss in enthusiasm. If one considers the measurement of true success as the achievement of goals set personally for oneself then one is truly unaware of the meaning of success. Success can be determined by competitiveness and zeal to overcome failure, both of which are lost when goals are set personally.

When setting goals for oneself, one would be foolish and irrational to keep the goal far beyond ones reach, as one already knows what his/her limitations are. Therefore even before performing the task one would already know that the task...

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Score: 5.5 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 362 350
No. of Characters: 1737 1500
No. of Different Words: 172 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.362 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.798 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.708 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.294 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.587 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.412 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.631 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5

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No. of Words: 362 350
No. of Different Words: 172 200

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