Some students take one year off between finishing school and going to university, in order to travel or to work. Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Nowadays, some students choose to take a one-year break, either working or traveling, after graduated from high school. This might be a good idea in terms of career planning. However, some people argue that it is a completely waste of time.

Firstly, taking one year off after high school could be beneficial for those students who want to obtain some insights about the industries they interested. Having a better understanding about the job, the student will be more prudent when choosing their major in university and avoid select the courses inconsistent with their career prospective. In my country, little connections were found between the business area that people entered and what they leant form university.

On the other side of the coin, taking the one year off can be less helpful in career and time wasting. The adverse opinions state that people with high school degree can only obtain less important role in companies and learn very little. In addition, student who delaying their enrolment of university are left behind by their peers. Providing that they will graduate from university later than their peers, they will enter into the employment market later than their peers. Therefore, they may find they are in a weak position when competing with peers.

In conclusion, taking one year off after high school provides students with good opportunities to know the world and themselves. It also risky that they may end up with nothing significant learnt and be regret about the time wasted. For me, the benefits outweigh the disadvantage since I believe student should make sure what they really enjoy and interest before enter university and have a deeper knowledge in those subjects.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: You used an adverb ('completely') instead an adjective, or a noun ('waste') instead of another adjective.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, may, really, so, therefore, in addition, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1435.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14336917563 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52555190103 2.80592935109 90% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.594982078853 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 506.74238477 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => 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: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2487165469 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.5 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9285714286 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35714285714 7.06120827912 90% => 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 : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201315543551 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0747587090975 0.084324248473 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0823941604035 0.0667982634062 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141329147814 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450472440119 0.056905535591 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 50.2224549098 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 78.4519038076 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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