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?

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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?

It is increasingly common these days taking a year off after completing the school rather than doing continuous study and aiming for their graduation through university. This essay will highlight both benefits and drawback that results from such an approach.

To begin with the positives, student who just passed from school often tend to have no practical knowledge. So, taking a year gap will help them to work outside their comfort zone and in the real world and gain some industry experience. Secondly, this will further assist them in exploring new fields of studies. For example, a student from science background could have some valuable insights in the business world and would probably want to learn more in that respective domain. As a result, they would have better perspective which will help him in making a accurate decision by opting for multi-disciplinary course suits both his knowledge and the market requirement. On the contrary, if a student directly goes forward with education without taking a year off, there understanding of real world would be from the limited knowledge and perspective, so they generally will not be able to make a right choice in terms of their higher education and choosing right career path.

However, take a sabbatical year can also have myriad of problems. Firstly, since students may be working outside to make a living they might get tired due to daily work. As a result, they might loose interest as they do not have much time and energy to focus on preparation for higher studies. Secondly, there is possibility of people loosing drive to excel and will spend a year waiting around and doing nothing productive in that time and concomitant their resume will have a gap without any substantial work. This will result in they facing challenges during the time of job search as employers usually dislike anyone with year gap and no work experience.

In conclusion, although year off are beneficial to gain experience and real world perspective in terms of making right decision, it is important to consider that they also harm focus, concentration and are not as thorough as having studies without any gap.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, for example, in conclusion, as a result, on the contrary, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1812.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 359.0 315.596192385 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04735376045 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7040654498 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559888579387 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.5604038122 49.4020404114 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.428571429 106.682146367 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6428571429 20.7667163134 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.5 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.142953216332 0.244688304435 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0554154441248 0.084324248473 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0388286300765 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101888490603 0.151304729494 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0334041710791 0.056905535591 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 50.2224549098 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => 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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