Some high school students are delaying college for a year in order to take a gap year where pursue other opportunities such as work or travel. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of gap years. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

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Some high school students are delaying college for a year in order to take a gap year where pursue other opportunities such as work or travel. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of gap years. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer

College deferral is one of the facilities given by the university to assist a student delay their admission due to inexorate circumstances such as immediate family death or financial problem. Recently, the facility also used by other student for facilitated them to travel or do some volunteer work. Although delaying college will give the student opportunities to get real experience and skill, it also have disadvantages that I would like to elaborate in the next paragraph.

First, leaving school for such a long period has adverse effect for the student. They might forget the knowledge about applied science such as math and physic. It is a fact that in daily life we do not use law of gravity or rule of chemical titration. Thus, when they started school one year later, they might have difficulties to catch up with other student who recently graduate.

The other thing that needs to be considered is the student might lose interest to pursue a degree. It happen time to time. When they got high income or they got job offer in exotic places, they might forgone their education. This would be affecting them negatively since in today job environment, university degree is a minimum requirement.

In the other hand, College deferral gives a lot advantage for student. It give additional time to gain essential skill and knowledge to pursue undergraduate degree. We all know how hard it is to gain a bachelor degree. It is necessary for a freshman to have abilities in time management, communication, and teamwork. This is provided by working and travelling.
Working in a real life setting either volunteer or full time job, give the student the chance to work in a team, mingled with adult, practice their leadership and communication skill and the most important thing their sense of obligation. Travelling also give student the better insight in other culture, learn to respect it and adjuct to it. The responsibility for fulfill job deadline or plan the itinerary and flight scheduled as efficient as could also give added value to their capability. Therefore, when they started their school, they already equipped with this skill and could use it to the fullest in their learning process.

Overall, delaying school is important decision that needs careful consideration. It will become a huge advantage or hindered student to be successful. I believe the parents and kids need to be careful and took all the precaution before deciding the matter.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, so, therefore, thus, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2065.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 408.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0612745098 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81493684214 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526960784314 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 652.5 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.691589538 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.7826086957 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7391304348 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.95652173913 5.45110844103 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209547023479 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0601425443961 0.076458572812 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0536163311754 0.0737576698707 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106871527549 0.150856017488 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.053970703382 0.0645574589148 84% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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