In some countries, young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school and starting university studies.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people who decide to to this.
Taking a gap year between high school graduation and university enrollment has become a popular trend among young people in many countries. However, whether students should travel or work before starting universities remains a controversial question. In this essay, both advantages and disadvantages of this issue will be discussed in details.
On the bright side, working or travelling before starting universities can give students invaluable experience. While students who pass directly from high school to universities are usually restricted in terms of general knowledge and experience of the whole world, those who choose to take a gap year can broaden their horizons and have better personal resources to draw on. They also tend to be more self-independent and ready to cope with challenges and overcome setbacks. Hence, when attending university education, those students will be more self-discipline in their studies and achieve greater triumphs. In addition, owing to their excessive exposure to real life, students can get a clearer perspective of their career path; therefore, they can choose suitable majors and jobs which match their interests and personalities.
On the other hand, long interval in schools can have certain disadvantages. After taking a gap year, students’ study skills may be diminished, which makes it harder for them to readapt to the academic environment. This is particularly true for mathematic or physics students, or any courses that require complex theorical processes and techniques which are not common outside the classrooms. Moreover, it can break the rythms of studies. As a consequence, students may end up not wanting to return to formal education. Unfortunately, this can worsen their career prospects because without academic qualifications, it is nearly impossible to find a good job or a successful career.
In conclusion, there are both merits and demerits to taking a year gap after high school. This can be beneficial for students who resume their studies with renewed vigor after the break. However, it is detrimental for those who fail to continue their studies.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, while, in addition, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1800.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 329.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47112462006 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06618691593 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 176.041082164 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604863221884 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 548.1 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5397223579 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.882352941 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3529411765 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.252584247021 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0783834984458 0.084324248473 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0659384603372 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177037584633 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100671474223 0.056905535591 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => 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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