Some people think that to lead a successful life a university degree is important. Others believe that this is no longer true nowadays. Discuss both views and give your own opinion

In today's world there is a lot of competition and some believe that is easier to step ahead of others with a university degree, but in reality there is a scarcity of people with talent. I personally believe that it is the talent that is more important than the degree. Let us see both the aspects.

Let us first take the example of university graduates or Ivy graduates. Having a degree can definitely land you a job in MNCs very easily or with minimal struggle as compared to someone who doesn't hold a degree. People with degrees are perceived to be smarter than the other lot. Though it appears a lot easier, in reality, it may not be true. As a degree does not guarantee you the growth that would be expected. The growth in an organization would depend a lot on how an individual proves himself during his tenure at any company. For example: An engineering graduate gets campus recruited in one of the MNCs, proves himself over the years and also gets promoted as per the regular cycle. But there comes a point where his growth gets stagnant as the individual has done nothing beyond his job role description.

Now, let us consider an individual with immense knowledge on technology, self-learner, has a plethora of soft skills right from presentation to communication to leadership. He would face initial rejection from any company because there is no validation. But in today's world the interviewers are not just looking for the textbookish knowledge but someone who can demonstrate that he can do MORE. Most of these students are university drop out by choice. They have many innovative ideas which is desired today. Example: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, all of them are college drop-outs but billionaires in reality.

MNCs choose innovators over executors, smart workers over hard workers. Companies today need faster, better and innovative solutions to run their businesses. Hence In my personal experience, an individual who has a strategic mindset as against someone with cent per cent score is likely to be more successful in reality and to have that a university degree is not important. It is definitely good to have.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, look, may, so, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1789.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 365.0 315.596192385 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90136986301 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80173658718 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575342465753 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 574.2 506.74238477 113% => 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: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.3217313294 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.1904761905 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.380952381 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.42857142857 7.06120827912 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.107352225433 0.244688304435 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0308215017731 0.084324248473 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0390360736279 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0704310711981 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0413060942549 0.056905535591 73% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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