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?
With the advancements in the educational system, students, nowadays, have numerous options to choose from concerning their career prospects. Therefore, taking some time off to figure out the optimum area in tertiary education has become prevalent among school graduates. In this essay, I shall discuss the benefits and drawbacks of this popular trend.
To begin with, after the completion of secondary education, dropping off for one year provides enough time to get enrolled in several short-term courses to achieve basic certifications as well as to explore the areas of interest. This is profoundly helpful to select the appropriate field to study further and get expertise in that particular subject. Take six months computer courses, for example, which includes a vast array of technologies, acquiring fundamental skills would not only develop a strong base for the certified students but also, it would give insights into what could be expected in the university from Computer Science Engineering. Moreover, in the meantime, the prospective students could also prepare for competitive examinations to get selected in top universities throughout the world.
On the other hand, if not counseled properly by teachers and guardians, most teenagers during their year off could get distracted from studies. Besides, because of the continuous habit of spending their time doing almost nothing productive, joining back the college or university might cause a plethora of problems in their higher studies. Furthermore, during work placements, if the educational gap would not be justified properly by an individual, the potential employers might refuse to hire such a candidate. To exemplify, a recent survey by the Economic Times found that approximately 20 percent of job applications are declined by the companies annually due to the incompetence of graduates to show any productive tasks in the gap between school and college studies.
Having seen both merits and demerits of time off in between the education, it can be concluded that if the students utilize their time wisely during the gap, they would get astronomical advantages from their hard work in the future. To achieve this, it is the responsibility of parents as well as teachers to guide them properly.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, if, moreover, second, so, therefore, well, as to, for example, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 41.998997996 152% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1921.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 355.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41126760563 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97757804893 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619718309859 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.9739309265 49.4020404114 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.769230769 106.682146367 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3076923077 20.7667163134 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7692307692 7.06120827912 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177860839596 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0573313084615 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0364088304077 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106011020776 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0365091983548 0.056905535591 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 13.0946893788 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 50.2224549098 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 78.4519038076 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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