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?
Some people argue that spending a year out from regular academic studies in between completing high school and joining university is beneficial while for others, it does no good. There are both merits and demerits of taking this gap year. The essay attempts to dig into both aspects.
Firstly, a gap year has been considered to be good because a fresh high school graduate may not be well aware of possible career paths for him. But a gap year may help him explore market trends of professions more closely, that in turn will guide him to choose an appropriate faculty at his university years. For instance, many students who took a year off to travel the world to get first hand experience of current situation and analyze the future trends and then went to university of their choice based on their career objectives have been found to be more successful in their careers. Secondly, financial obligations could be met to some extent after taking a gap year to work. For example, higher degree institutions require upfront tuition fees to be paid by the student. An aspiring student can save some money to be able to pay to college of his choice.
In the other hand, there are people who once took a break and never returned to academics which has been the downside of a gap year. It happened because, after experiencing the enjoyment from a long break, one couldn’t come back to study. This apparently promotes young folk to indulge into drugs or other bad habits that might not be reversible. Furthermore, some pupils tend to take a longer gaps before they make up their mind to continue their studies and by that time its is already too late for many good institutions to offer them a place. In other words, the age factor matters for getting admissions at highly accredited institutions.
To sum up, taking a year off from studies might be beneficial for those who by themselves want to explore the world and choose their faculties at the university but at the same time this might be detrimental for those who wants to take off just to get rid of studies and assignments.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, first, firstly, furthermore, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, for example, for instance, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1726.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 366.0 315.596192385 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71584699454 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56246283336 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571038251366 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 540.0 506.74238477 107% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.6760759196 49.4020404114 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.066666667 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.6 7.06120827912 136% => 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 : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.101049994082 0.244688304435 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0353545057548 0.084324248473 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354582494229 0.0667982634062 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0715551924323 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0312822629886 0.056905535591 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.58950901804 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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