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?

Many students routinely prefer to take a leap after finishing school. Although students end up losing a whole year, it has proven to be beneficial in the longer run. In my opinion, students will be benefitted more if they take a break, despite its downside.
The greatest advantage of taking a year off is that students will have enough time to relax, rejuvenate and prepare for the entrance exams which would have been otherwise impossible if they would have had immediately started off with the further study. For instance, studies have shown that students scored higher and achieved their target scores as compared to those who didn't. They were less stressful and anxious as compared to others because they had a longer time to study as well as enough time to relax.

Just like every rose has a thorn. this advantage too comes at the expense of losing a precious year of youth with no academic progress. Moreover, the student may then feel uncomfortable and have difficulty adjusting as the other students would be younger than him. For instance, my friend who took a leap twice felt isolated and left out. He found it difficult to connect with the students. Because of this, he felt like a fish out of water and had to be counselled. He took a while restoring himself academically.

To sum up, taking a year off has been tremendously common and popular. Although, the student faces difficulties it seems to provide huge benefits in the longer run. In my belief, losing a year and joining university a year later do not hold much significance as compared to the merits gained.

Votes
Average: 6.1 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, moreover, so, then, well, while, for instance, as well as, in my opinion, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1313.0 1615.20841683 81% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79197080292 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60587264082 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583941605839 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 413.1 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.4835436661 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.0625 106.682146367 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.125 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => 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: 0.156989969092 0.244688304435 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.046386886201 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552456514306 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0920624409426 0.151304729494 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0234961264279 0.056905535591 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.0946893788 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.4159519038 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => 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: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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