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?
Nowadays, the trend of having a year gap in between graduating from high school and gaining admission into the higher institution is on the increase. Although this have lot of benefits such as travel experience and financial support, it also have some demerits.
Undoubtedly, a gap year from school has a number of benefits. To begin, it creates an opportunity to travel and explore the world. This exposes them to people of diverse culture and beliefs which in-turn prepare them ahead on how to cope or deal with different people they will encounter in the university. What's more, going to the university is quite expensive, so getting a job during the year off is one way to make some money in order to ease their parents' financial burden. For example, a colleague at the university did a job of a hospital attendant in order to gather funds for her higher institution expenses.
However, there are also some drawbacks attached to a year off school. Firstly, the students tend to suffer diminished knowledge. There are some subjects that needs constant study and practice like Mathematics and English studies. If these subjects are neglected for a whole year, it would affect the students at the University's entrance exam and probably first year in school. Another disadvantage is ageing. A year off school means a year setback. While other students are already in their second year in the University, such students are just applying as freshers.
In conclusion, it is a popular trend among students to take a year gap between their high school and Tertiary education. Despite its advantages like fund raising and valueable experience, its drawbacks cannot be overemphasized.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, so, while, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1415.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 278.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08992805755 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08329915638 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79312087963 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586330935252 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.0223221077 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.4375 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.375 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5625 7.06120827912 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => 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: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.299189289255 0.244688304435 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0879216052846 0.084324248473 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0693756526033 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161534873613 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.027933311698 0.056905535591 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.0946893788 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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