Advantages and disadvantages of overseas studying

Many high school leavers indeed choose to go abroad to further their education. While there are several benefits for students who do this, there are also some possible drawbacks.

On the one hand, the option to study overseas is attractive for several reasons. Firstly, students are exposed to an entirely different culture and experience a completely different way of living. This helps students to become more knowledgeable and open-minded individuals. Another advantage is that they could acquire a new language more effortlessly and quickly. Being surrounded by native speakers helps them to build up their vocabulary and make them progress faster. Finally, since more developed countries are often preferred destinations among students, the qualifications acquired in those nations tend to be prestigious and highly valued. As a result, when students return their home country, they are more able to compete against the domestic labor workforce.

On the other hand, there are also many disadvantages of overseas studying. Students are likely to suffer homesickness when facing unfamiliar food and surroundings on their own or to struggle to blend in. In many cases, students are just able to make friends with people of the same nationality, or even worse are completely isolated and alienated, which are detrimental to their mental health. Moreover, the costs of living tend to be higher, which can cause students to resort to student loans. If these loans are not well managed, they may end up being caught in financial troubles later when they finish school.

In conclusion, overseas studying has both advantages and disadvantages.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, so, well, while, in conclusion, as a result, in many cases, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1392.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 257.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41634241245 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86796560747 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.653696498054 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 433.8 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.0154213393 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1333333333 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.46666666667 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152102440363 0.244688304435 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0654566034517 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127840213884 0.0667982634062 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149480828378 0.151304729494 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.176485246874 0.056905535591 310% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => 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: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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