It is becoming increasingly popular to have a year off between finishing school and going to university. Do the advantaged of having a gap year outweigh its disadvantages?
Spending a year off to pursue other things instead of tertiary education after graduating from high school is preferred by more and more people. Personally, I believe that this phenomenon does more harm than good to most people.
On the one hand, having a gap year before going to the college might have some advantages. Firstly, for those who want to explore the world surrounding them and get some real-life experiences, postponing their study can enable them to travel to numerous places or apply for a job, thus obtaining their goals. Besides, some people believe that this would give them working experience, which would be appreciated by future employers. Another reason is that some youngsters want to escape from the vicious cycle of studying, which has made them exhausted, and take a long rest. As a result, their mental and physical health might improve after intense preparations for the high school graduating examination.
However, I think that few people have a certain level of self-understanding and necessary soft skills to obtain the aforementioned benefits because the dangers and drawbacks of having a gap year can make their one year off unsatisfying. First and foremost, given that most youngsters have limited professional knowledge and skills, their gap-year jobs tend to be contemporary, low-paid and labour-intensive such as waiter and cashier. Even worse, these low-skilled jobs do not increase their competitiveness in the future job market since they do not prove their professional expertise in occupations trained at their universities. Moreover, for those who want to be a full-time traveller, their travelling experience might become terrible due to a lack of essential soft skills like communication skills and problem-solving skills. Also, there are unpredictable dangers of criminals or health problems which make becoming a college student a more reasonable choice.
In conclusion, although going out to seek memorable adventures or working experience might be appealing to young people, to me, the disadvantages of this decision are still more significant than its advantages.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 707, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the high school graduating examination. However, I think that few people have a ...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, so, still, thus, i think, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1791.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42727272727 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12341934313 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59696969697 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 506.74238477 108% => 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: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.231198624 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.769230769 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3846153846 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 7.06120827912 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20568396647 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734262320044 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0898173304959 0.0667982634062 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105798927426 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.045943455078 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 707, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the high school graduating examination. However, I think that few people have a ...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, so, still, thus, i think, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1791.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42727272727 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12341934313 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59696969697 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 545.4 506.74238477 108% => 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: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.231198624 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.769230769 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3846153846 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 7.06120827912 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20568396647 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734262320044 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0898173304959 0.0667982634062 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105798927426 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.045943455078 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => 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.