In some countries, it is usual for young people who graduate from high school to spend a year working or travelling before going to university. What are the advantages and disadvantages for young people who decide to do this?
Give reasons and examples from your knowledge or experience to support your answer.
Write at least 150 words.
In the present age, it has been quite common for the alumni to take a year off for a journey or temporary work before attending the university. While this trend may bring about several drawbacks, I believe its benefits still outweigh the disadvantages.
There is no doubt that gap year offers students an opportunity to accomplish comprehensive development. Among some education systems, pupils excessively focus on academic performance and lack of experience of practical circumstances is commonplace. It might be a big challenge for them when entering the labor force since they had little soft skills. However, a gap year of traveling or working would handle this alarming tendency by allowing students to encounter several life problems such as financial crisis, career pressure, or accommodation shortage, to name but a few. As long as youngsters change their mindset and get used to overcoming difficulties, their future life would be facilitated.
However, as every coin has two sides, gap year takers may suffer a higher risk of dropping out of university. To be more precise, the long-term disruption in schooling progress gradually poses a negative influence on the academic background which makes students find it hard to acquire advanced knowledge. If learners fail to keep up with their peers, they will soon express an irresponsible attitude along with the unsatisfactory toward study. Since they got familiar with the journey or working environment, the leavers probably consider entering college is virtually worthless. Nevertheless, it should be noted that large companies only recruit the ones that successfully fulfill their criteria which includes excellent academic background. Therefore, it is a big obstacle for gap year takers who wish to secure well-paid jobs quickly.
In conclusion, it is my firm conviction that taking a gap year brings about potential benefits; however, further education should not be overlooked
Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1655.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46204620462 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05699649854 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6699669967 0.561755894193 119% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4218481191 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.214285714 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6428571429 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.85714285714 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.110612645213 0.244688304435 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0365722633579 0.084324248473 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420827810441 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0672838915359 0.151304729494 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364691050865 0.056905535591 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.1 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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