In many countries, students take a year off after finishing school and work or travel during this period. Should students take a gap year before attending universities? What are the advantages and disadvantages of it?
One of the most conspicuous trends of today’s world is taking a year off by students before commencing tertiary education and spending this time either on travelling or working in an effort to gain some hands ones experience about the outside world. As such, there are both merits and demerits to this trend, although I am of the opinion that the former outdo the latter.
There are a deluge of arguments in favour of my stance. The most preponderant one is that thanks to travelling, it will render a much-needed exposure of the outside world to the youth, thus ones can easily be as knowledgeable as a wise individual. These kinds of exposure, be it through travel or work experience not only augment ones' self-reliance both psychologically as well as financially, but it also instills in them an array of essential social skills that are deemed pivotal in coping with harsh reality of the world. Needless to say, all these attributes will stand a youth in good stead, as far as surviving in the fast-paced competitive world is concerned.
On the one hand, by remaining away from studies for a considerable period, students are likely to develop an unwelcomed apathy towards studies because of a strong influence and impact these distractions have. For example, with all the perilous and spoiling elements such as evil companies and drugs available at hand, teenagers can easily go astray, thanks to the immaturity and vulnerability of their age, thus ruining their promising future.
In view of the arguments outlined above, one can conclude that the role a gap year plays in a student’s life is instrumental indeed. Nevertheless, its potential drawbacks should not be overlooked either.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, nevertheless, so, still, thus, well, for example, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 8.36945812808 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 5.94088669951 67% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 20.9802955665 86% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 31.9359605911 132% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.75862068966 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1430.0 1207.87684729 118% => OK
No of words: 282.0 242.827586207 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07092198582 5.00649968141 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99400840239 2.71678728327 110% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 139.433497537 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.617021276596 0.580463131201 106% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 379.143842365 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 12.6551724138 79% => 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: 28.0 20.5024630542 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.1301601274 50.4703680194 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.0 104.977214359 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.2 20.9669160288 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.25397266985 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.33497536946 75% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 2.91625615764 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140806774014 0.242375264174 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0489611310095 0.0925447433944 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.065580143138 0.071462118173 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.092954512848 0.151781067708 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690041851038 0.0609392437508 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 12.6369458128 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 53.1260098522 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.9458128079 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 11.5310837438 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.78 8.32886699507 117% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 55.0591133005 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.94827586207 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.3980295567 127% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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