GRE Issue Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reason

Every year, each university in the USA receives and accepts hundreds of international applications from graduate students around the world, specially the least developed countries. The subsequent academic pathway of these students could be smoothened if they had at least one semester of internship in the country of their choice. The prompt recommends that universitites make it mandatory for its students to spend a semester in a foreign nation. I strongly agree to the notion, since the student can be benefitted in the following manner.

An international graduate student studying in a foreign university faces numerous non-academic problems, like cultural shock, which could be cushioned if he or she had a previous exposure to the same conditions. For instance, a number of international students in USA from Bangladesh wrote about their experience in the group “NexTop Higher Study in USA” which is a Bangladeshi community of both Bangladeshi graduates in USA and aspiring Bangladeshi students targeting USA as their country of choice for higher studies. All of them wrote about cultural shock they went through and the amount of time they needed to get accustomed to the change. This experience is relevant for supporting the argument suggested in the prompt, since research asserts that previous familiarity with an environment helps reduce the intensity of shock received from it. If the students had an opportunity to visit the country of their academic choice before they officially attend that foreign country, a three to four month of exposure (the duration of a semester) can highly familiarize the student with the upcoming “adversity” and can take proper precautions to prevent any unintended outcome like lower than expected cumulative grade point average in their graduate exam.

People skeptical to the idea of universities sending their pupils to a foreign country can try to dismantle the above argument by bringing in the counter-argument of the extra monetary burden that both the student and the institution have to carry on their shoulder to complement the travel and stay. However, the expansion of knowledge that takes place in Bangladesh and abroad through the contribution of these migrating graduates, leads to a world of better understanding in any subject matter, which outweighs the temporary financial call. As cultural shock is known to hamper academic outcomes, a semester of study in the foreign nation of the student’s choice can greatly help achieve better results and wider recognition of Bangladeshi individuals in the academic arena.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 999, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'month' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'months'.
Suggestion: months
...d that foreign country, a three to four month of exposure the duration of a semester ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, then, at least, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.5258426966 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2188.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 405.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4024691358 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02467220956 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528395061728 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.2370786517 59% => 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: 33.0 23.0359550562 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.3950649075 60.3974514979 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 182.333333333 118.986275619 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.75 23.4991977007 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.83333333333 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213143121193 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0806169635838 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470692949009 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155875228073 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354360872594 0.0667264976115 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.9 14.1392134831 148% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.52 48.8420337079 60% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.3 12.1743820225 142% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.95 8.38706741573 119% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.2143820225 136% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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