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?

Submitted by sim_11 on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 10:59

There is no doubt that the trend of taking a year break after the completion of school and before starting the college courses has risen tremendously. In this write up, I will highlight the benefits and drawbacks of this new direction.

To start with the positives, a significant advantage is that students can explore the possibilities and get prepared for the future assignments. For instance, in this time children can learn new languages, or can enroll in a course, which can provide them the extra credits. As a result, the candidates will have an edge over their competition, and get admitted to the desired college. Moreover, teenagers nowadays are interested in travelling to other nations prior commencing another phase of their life. This is because, some of them might be interested in doing any voluntary work, other might find it refreshing to gain knowledge about the diverse cultures.

However, taking the year off can have some disadvantages too, the most obvious one of which is loss of track due to the long gap. For example, some of the students may fall into the trap of bad influence, they might start using drugs, alcohols, and other harmful substances. This will definitely sabotage their future. Furthermore, youngsters may be diverted from their path, if they start earning their livelihood. Such an environment is likely to curtail their interest for the further education. Children are the future of nation, and such mishaps can affect the entire nation’s progress.

In conclusion, although having year gap can broaden the horizons of the students by providing a better vision of the society and various culture, it can also deviate them from the right path and their future would jeopardize.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, as a result, to start with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 7.85571142285 216% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1455.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 283.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14134275618 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77925471383 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604240282686 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 440.1 506.74238477 87% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.6266814945 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.928571429 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2142857143 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.21428571429 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.172113284248 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0554135700445 0.084324248473 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0612831061506 0.0667982634062 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114734369677 0.151304729494 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0464216968465 0.056905535591 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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