It is becoming increasingly popular to have a year off between finishing school and going to university. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?
According to a recent survey, the majority of graduates have a gap year after finishing high school. I am convinced that, having a year off between school and university has its merits like an opportunity to have work experience, but it also has drawbacks like the risk of loss of students' concentration on studies.
On the one hand, I understand that working during the ga year is very advantageous for high school graduates. In other words, they can not only improve the skills in their field of interest but also earn some extra money to pay for the tuition fees. For example, in the United Kingdom, every third prospective student interest in computer science has a year off to work as a volunteer in major companies like Google and Facebook. Obviously, such experiences can definitely help freshmen to learn more about a particular job and to have the upper hand in the university applications. All things considered, it seems to me that, to have a year off could be immensely valuable for students, especially if they are determined to work tirelessly and enhance their professional knowledge.
On the other hand, it is obvious that the extended period of time out of studies has its drawbacks because students may have difficulties at the university. To put it another way, generally, it may be more complicated for students to follow academic timetables and meet new challenges. For instance, in 2017, 37 undergraduates who had a year out were expelled from Oxford University as they struggled with high school program and could not adjust to university schedule. Therefore, I am certain that, taking a year out has serious disadvantages that can lead even to the expulsion of students from the institute.
All in all, there are both advantages and disadvantages to taking a gap year. In my opinion, if students truly want to ensure the successful career in the future, they should probably benefit from the gap year between high school and university studies.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, therefore, third, for example, for instance, in my opinion, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1653.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 331.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99395770393 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92132049188 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555891238671 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => 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: 38.584879155 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.153846154 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4615384615 20.7667163134 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => 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 : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.221270032873 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0829729579083 0.084324248473 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552898017615 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148473461321 0.151304729494 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0539872910038 0.056905535591 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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