In some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between
finishing high school and starting university studies. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people who decide to do this.
In our modern world in some countries young generation have choice between starting studying at universities and taking a year off for working or travelling. In this case there are drawbacks and also advantages of spending a year not studying after graduating high school.
The main benefit of young people taking a gap year before going to university is that future students can gain appropriate experience and knowledge for their future studies. For instance, if young people want to study the children’s educational area they can work at schools or kindergartens and they can even be like voluntaries. Therefore, they will be aware of basic knowledge. Undoubtedly, this knowledge will help them with academic tasks and research at university.
The major drawback of delaying studying after high school is that people might forget some essential academic knowledge for example of physics or mathematics which is usually needed at university especially if they travel. As a result, they can lose points regarding their in academic credentials also it leads to achievement of poor skills and low-quality knowledge for their future professional life. This is important because nowadays, young generation have problems in some circumstances with finding worthy job because of labor market competition. Young people should have excellent education and good work skills to be competitive in career.
To summarize the advantages and drawbacks of young people having a year off after high school, it is clear that it can bring good opportunities for future work experience on the one hand and can make academic results worse on the other hand.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, regarding, so, therefore, for example, for instance, as a result, 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: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1394.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 260.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36153846154 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93872330691 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 176.041082164 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.561538461538 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 428.4 506.74238477 85% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3374322223 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.727272727 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6363636364 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.45454545455 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.360550025602 0.244688304435 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137052391168 0.084324248473 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819265691189 0.0667982634062 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.241277015427 0.151304729494 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0355533679629 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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