It is becoming increasingly popular to have a year off between finishing school and going to university. What are the advantage and disadvantages of this?
Taking a year break from studies after graduating from school is on the rise and many students are opting for it. In this gap year, students can travel and work to save money for university. This essay will discuss both merits and demerits of this trend.
On one hand, firstly, the major advantage of taking a year off is that one can travel aboard. This way, he can learn new culture and language that will be helpful in future when entering into the practical life. For instance, my cousin travelled to Spain during his gap year and not only learn Spanish language but also get familiar with its culture, resulting in easily finding job after graduating from a university. Secondly, some students, thinking of saving funds for university fee, start job. As a result, they not only save money but also acquire new skills that will help in settling after finishing university. Therefore, taking a gap year between studies not only helps student to learn new cultures and languages but also save earning and gain new skills.
On the other hand, having a year off between studies can create problems for students and most notably, they lose focus on studies. That is, during the gap period, they become lazy and away from studies that it is difficult for them to refocus on studies resulting in falling behind in the class ultimately they leave studies. For example, one of my friend, he took a year gap after school and when he rejoined studies, he cannot focus and quit university resulting in doing unskilled jobs for earning his lively hood. Another demerit of having a year off is that they might not find work resulting in wasting that precious time. So, a year off between studies is not only become a waste of time but also students might never get back to studies.
In conclusion, gap year between studies will enable students to learn new cultures, languages and skills, ultimately, getting students ready for practical life but it also can make them loose interest in studies and making their time a wastage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1671.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 350.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77428571429 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32769483939 2.80592935109 83% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485714285714 0.561755894193 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 511.2 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0603129207 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.4 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.06666666667 7.06120827912 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184526421759 0.244688304435 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0767891030375 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0445674885291 0.0667982634062 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116275892316 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441121110239 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.4159519038 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.58950901804 89% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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