Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university, to travel or gain work experience.
Do you think this is a good idea or a waste of time?
Nowadays, taking a year off before entering university is more favorable for some students. While this trend may bring about some benefits, I would argue that they are eclipsed by the drawbacks.
On the one hand, there are a wide range of major advantages when students chose to spend theirs time travelling or taking a job before enrolling to university. The first benefit is that this option may enable them to have more relax time to enjoy themselves after many years following the of high school education. This allows them to refresh their mind and have more energy to enter university later. Another beneficial side of this trend is that they could learn some new skills or find out their true passion when travelling or taking a part-time job in their gap year. My close friends, for example, they are now very successfully because they have chosen to take a gap year before enrolling to university which give them more time to understand their inner talents before choosing a way to follow.
On the other hand, I personally believe that the drawbacks are more significant than such advantages. Firstly, people who chose to have a break time might end up enormous stress due to waste their time and money. Secondly, taking a gap year often demotivates students from continuing learning. There are many students who chose to take a gap year will never return to school anymore because they think that they have followed behind their same-age friends. Finally, there is very little work with higher salary for high school students.
In conclusion, while taking a gap year may have some positive aspects such as having more time to relax and learning new skills, I believe that they are outweighed by the more significant negative effects as regarded to demotivating their future learning, more chances to quit school.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => 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: 1520.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93506493506 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48335664223 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 176.041082164 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542207792208 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.1843322315 49.4020404114 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.923076923 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6923076923 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => 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: 0.264426476641 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102458625688 0.084324248473 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553943532491 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158246984357 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0670232743046 0.056905535591 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => 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: 1520.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93506493506 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48335664223 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 176.041082164 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542207792208 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.1843322315 49.4020404114 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.923076923 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6923076923 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => 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: 0.264426476641 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102458625688 0.084324248473 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553943532491 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158246984357 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0670232743046 0.056905535591 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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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.