Nowadays, taking a gap year is becoming increasingly common. After finishing high school, more people are considering taking a year off in order to pursue their passions before going to university or college. This period will greatly enable them to reflect on themselves as who they are outside of the pursuit of academics, but there will also be some drawbacks.
One advantage of gap years is that it would improve a student’s sense of self-worth outside of school. Many students spend most of their time in high school doing required and extra works to improve their grade and thus their chance at getting into a university. This leaves little time for self-reflection and self-growth. Taking a gap year enable them to follow other passions that they didn’t have time to focus on. In addition, another benefit of the gap year experience is that it enables some students to take up a job before college: becoming an intern at a tech company or a research program, doing charity work for a global organization, and et cetera. This not only improves their social skills and broadens their network, but it can also be incredibly rewarding.
On the other hand, taking a year off from school can be risky. Firstly, depending on where students choose to stay during the year off, gap years can be quite expensive. Short term travel can be very costly, especially if they are planning on traveling overseas, as they will have to consider the costs of visa application, health insurance, accommodations, and food. Secondly, students can lose their academic momentum, which will make it difficult to transition back to their studies. Finally, taking a year out can add an extended period of time to an already lengthy educational process, which could potentially result in them missing out on an early start in their career.
In conclusion, should students choose to spend a year off from their studies, it is crucial that they do plenty of research and preparation, for it will definitely be a life-changing experience.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Line 5, column 244, Rule ID: ON_GOING[1]
Message: Did you mean 'ongoing'?
Suggestion: ongoing
...costly, especially if they are planning on going overseas, as they will have to consider...
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
..., taking a year out can add an extended period of time to an already lengthy educational proce...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, thus, in addition, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1701.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 340.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00294117647 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83284462167 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.8056585211 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.4 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6666666667 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.53333333333 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193352458407 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0760686738306 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542978922226 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124423524917 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531157126491 0.056905535591 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => 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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