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 ?
Instead of rolling in university as usual, a number of high school seniors now choose to delay tertiary education for one year to seek for job or to go on vacation. From my perspective as a student, this has its certain benefits, but pale in comparisons with drawbacks.
Deferring university enrollment can enrich students' life experiences. In the year-long break, students can travel to other regions or countries, which enforces them to learn new languages as well as accommodate themselves to an independent life style. The more places they travel, the more they gain knowledge about cultures around the world and hone practical skills. In addition, gap-year takers can attend vocational training courses, which identifies suitable career paths for them. Some high schools don't have adequate occupation guidance, so having a year-long break could be a great idea for student to cultivate relevant job skills.
On the other hand, students' confidence may be drained when they enroll in university because of intense study schedule and peer pressure. Therefore, they may lose momentum in studying and fall behind. Gap-year takers can also find it difficult to resume pursuing college, as they took a too long break from studying. In addition, youngsters who decide to seek for jobs instead of embarking on higher education right away are unlikely to save up much money or hone much relevant job skills. The reason for this is high school leavers may only be hired to do entry-level jobs, such as table waiters, baristas in cafes and milk tea shops or hourly tutor. These jobs neither charge students good levels of salary, nor teach them any substantive and practical skills.
In a nutshell, I am convinced that the benefits of delaying university enrollment for one year pale in comparisons with the drawbacks.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 506, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, therefore, well, in addition, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1519.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13175675676 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7121603947 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.635135135135 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 506.74238477 92% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.8899874533 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.5 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57142857143 7.06120827912 93% => 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 : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.205284220365 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675450151481 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0399507871594 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124231520501 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0383213226672 0.056905535591 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => 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: 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.