“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?”
In today’s world, there has been an accelerating trend of students taking a break from studying before pursuing tertiary education. While this trend is beneficial in some respects, its shortcomings are more significant for the followers of this trend.
A gap year may enable students to enrich themselves with real-life experiences that are beneficial to their future. These may include having a paid job, from which those who have just entered adulthood may learn many working skills, such as communication, teamwork and following orders. The youngsters taking a gap year, as a result, are better prepared for their future jobs. Some gap-year-takers may also travel the world and absorb knowledge of diverse cultural settings and from different geographical contexts. In this globalised world, such knowledge is essential for developing a successful career.
Nevertheless, the disadvantages of taking a gap year for recent high-school graduates are serious, far outweighing the advantages. The primary reason is that the young can be overwhelmed by the unwanted difficulties of life outside of school campus. A physically demanding job, for example, can be exhausting for most high-school-leavers. Another significant reason is that to some youngsters without firm academic goals, earning money and living without the discipline of formal schooling could be more appealing than returning to school after the gap year. If they choose not to go back to school, they may lose the chance of obtaining academic knowledge and university degrees, which may help them earn even more money in the future.
In summary, despite potential gains, there are more serious drawbacks associated with a gap year such as the overwhelming difficulties when starting to work too soon and the prospect of not acquiring any university knowledge and degrees. It is recommended that students should take a university course right after they finish their high school.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, nevertheless, so, while, for example, in summary, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1652.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 302.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4701986755 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07739016842 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602649006623 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2077404425 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.0 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5714285714 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.07142857143 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => 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: 0.314880637796 0.244688304435 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106248786753 0.084324248473 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0705862726888 0.0667982634062 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177116159004 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0420649137489 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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