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?

Education trends have changed a lot over the last decade. Gap year between secondary and tertiary education is gaining more popularity these days. Having a year off would certainly aid better decision making, learning and experience but there will be some drawbacks also.

One evident benefit of gap year is that it gives more time to think and decide about the future education and job prospects. To put it simply, after completion of competitive and mentally exhausting secondary education, taking a year off helps to decide the stream to be opted in university, which would ultimately land them in the respective job sector. Furthermore, this time can be utilized for exploring various opportunities like part time jobs in field of interest or opting for any small duration course, which would surely be a great learning experience. Therefore, it can fully rejuvenate the career.

On the other hand, there are obvious disadvantages of year off. To begin with, it can completely vanish the zeal and interest in any further education. In other words, during a this time off, if a person gets some good opportunity to earn income, he may decide to quit further education thinking secondary education is sufficient to earn bread and butter. Nextly, most of the the companies which come for campus recruitment prefer candidates having either no gap in education or any justified reason for taking year off. This can ruin the career of many people as they may end up as unemployed or doing any unskilled job.

In conclusion, taking time off between school and university definitely has some positive sides. However, it may end up many careers. Hence, focusing more on completing tertiary education with proper utilisation of gap year should be the motive.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, in conclusion, in other words, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1477.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 289.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1107266436 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72950949803 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595155709343 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 506.74238477 94% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.2782597163 49.4020404114 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4666666667 106.682146367 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2666666667 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.178319601942 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0645512536752 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0556909870595 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116841275763 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358864672813 0.056905535591 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => 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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