Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university, to travel or gain work experience.
Do you think this is a good idea or a waste of time?
Nowadays more and more students who attended their last year of high school decide to take a gap year before enrolling their college courses. In my opinion this is not a great idea.
Even though it is an awesome opportunity to get a deeper knowledge about themselves, I think that is a waste of time. Students have a lot of time in high school to decide in which undergraduate course they fit best. A person aged eighteen years is supposed to have a well formed vision of life. School teaches students how to create their identity from the most early stages.
Moreover, youngsters who are taking such long pauses, would be compromised in studies. In particular, people who stop the studying routine, are not used anymore to memorize a lot, as students usually are. For example, when adults, after having worked for some years, decide to enroll into a master, they come into lot of difficulties and they usually give up their courses.
Although taking a gap year has lot of disadvantages, for many students is not a choice. Everyone has different time in making life-long choices, and someone struggles a lot in deciding his future. By traveling around the world and meeting other cultures, a person can find himself and finally choose his path. Adding a year of work experience is proven to give a similar outcome in students and not to add new skills. Teenagers in fact usually do not pursue qualified jobs in these periods and they have not the opportunity to improve dramatically their curricula.
In conclusion, in my opinion, taking a gap year before starting college is mainly a waste of time. It could be a good idea just for the ones who are not sure about what to do next.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, if, moreover, so, well, for example, i think, in conclusion, in fact, in particular, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1398.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72297297297 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59778625484 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577702702703 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.9580435776 49.4020404114 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.375 106.682146367 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.303797334726 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913314229139 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0744560075496 0.0667982634062 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168080353267 0.151304729494 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0810723705645 0.056905535591 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.0946893788 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.4159519038 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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