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.

It’s true that many people believe that having a job or going to a trip before entering universities has many disadvantages. While their point of views make sense, I deem that to pause one year could have some positive effects on the oncoming higher education.

On the one hand, there are several reasons why some people disagree with the idea that to quit one year after high school. One of the major factors is that a gap year could possibly lead to a distraction from what the students are supposed to concentrate while studying. If the young people chose to work or travel before going to college, they would lose interest in study as the fresh experiences were far more exciting than school life. In addition, they will find it difficult to catch up the counterparts who continue their academic study without interruption. The other main reason is that the students have no income, so that they have to rely on their family’s financial support to afford a trip or to find a job.

On the other hand, I believe that the advantages of a gap year can not be outweighed by the drawbacks. Firstly, working in a team or travelling at different places can definitely broaden people’ s eyesight and enrich the knowledge of the social custom. Secondly, it is obviously that the process will be full of difficulties to be overcame and unexpected occasions to be adapted. For example, in order to be an adept of problem-solving, people need to learn how to interact with others, like team members or strangers, and to do utmost to build trust through sincerity. Finally, the various skills mentioned, which are of importance for enhancing comprehension and arising sense of responsibility, can’t be emphasized too much to encourage the development in future study and career path.

In conclusion, although there are some negative effects of having a gap year, I think students could be encouraged to play different roles before completing their further study.

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Suggestion: could
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, while, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1654.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 332.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98192771084 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90333323639 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593373493976 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 515.7 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 31.5975057064 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.230769231 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5384615385 20.7667163134 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.61538461538 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202361840026 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0645962264709 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474617107863 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103846542893 0.151304729494 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0335631742896 0.056905535591 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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