It is thought by many young people around the world that taking a year off between finishing high school and beginning university may be a chance to do things like travelling. Although this can have many advantages for the youngsters such as gaining a real-life experience, it can also mean falling a year behind academically. In this essay, I will outline the advantage and disadvantages of this.
One evident benefit to taking a gap year after graduating from high school is the experience that would-be students may gain. Whether it be to travel or to work, this would allow the youngsters to become more independent and learn more about themselves and their career choices. Travelling, for instance, gives the opportunity to young people to grow through experiencing and overcoming challenges. Work experience provides real-life skills that will help the theoretical knowledge they will gain at university. Even if the jog is unrelated to job aspirations, learning how to deal with customers, cooperate with colleagues and take on responsibilities are all valuable tools for students.
There are, however, obvious disadvantages to having a year off before enrolling to a university. One flip side is being a year behind academically. In other words, this means starting one’s university program a year later and thus graduating a year later than one’s peers. In addition to this, there are some financial drawbacks. Some scholarships, for example, do not allow students to defer, so the decision to take a gap year might result at a loss of a grant, which may mean long-term debt.
In conclusion, while taking a year off after high school can bring significant personal benefits, there are potential problems in terms of academic progress. As long as an individual is aware of their future direction, a gap year can be an extremely rewarding experience.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1570.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18151815182 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03415765749 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594059405941 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.7063666879 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.666666667 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.93333333333 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => 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: 0.254144230739 0.244688304435 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0851592938139 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725770445081 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159589181551 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0989228755873 0.056905535591 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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