Some students prefer to take a gap year between high school and university, to work or to travel.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Delaying tertiary education for one year seems a trend among students at present. While there exist compelling reasons why deferring higher education benefits gap-year takers, having a year-long break does accompany considerable drawbacks at best.
On the one hand, students taking a gap year will receive noticeable advantages in many aspects. First of all, they stand a higher chance of being exposed to more life experiences and honing practical skills. For example, gap-year takers could spend more time traveling and participating in community activities to refresh themselves after intense study schedules at high school, thereby growing more mature and adaptable to new environments. Another pronounced point is that they can take career options into account to identify the most suitable one. Because universities rarely provide adequate career guidance, it is hard for a high school junior who is still vague at his interest to immediately pick a particular major.
On the other hand, delaying tertiary education does pose unquestionable disadvantages to students. The first thing I want to mention is losing confidence. Because most of the gap-year takers, compared with the other, often fall behind regarding academic performance, they are more inclined to encounter peer pressure, thereby losing incentives to study. Another point is that gap-year takers can lose momentum and have difficulty concentrating because they get away from studying too long. Finally, they could also have trouble saving money and enriching relevant job skills. As high school graduates, they could only do entry-level jobs with a meager income. As a result, gaining practical experience may not be feasible.
In conclusion, while taking a gap year is not without benefits, I contend that the given disadvantages make it an unworthy path.
- Some people believe that everyone has a right to have access to university education and that governments should make it free for all students no matter what financial background they have To what extent do you agree or disagree 84
- Some students prefer to take a gap year between high school and university to work or to travel Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages 89
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, may, regarding, so, still, while, for example, in conclusion, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1558.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 281.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54448398577 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85985963426 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.665480427046 0.561755894193 118% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5844957847 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.866666667 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7333333333 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8 7.06120827912 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226940080001 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688979659293 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605395460674 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137056649035 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0391178089725 0.056905535591 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.76 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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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.