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?
Nowadays, many people take a one-year break to travel or work across the world before going to college. This trend recently is also known as “gap year” which can draw both pros and cons, which will be discussed in this essay.
One of the main pros of taking a gap year is becoming more focused. It means that youngsters will have more time to consider carefully about their real passion to pursue. Besides, deciding to take a year off after graduated from high school is also a good chance for students to enrich life experiences.Today, there are a lot of youngsters coming from US went to Asia nations to teach children who live in remote areas.This may help them to enhance their awareness of life and improve crucial soft skills.
Turning to the other sides of this topic, there is also some drawbacks of the trend “ gap year”. People who take a year off will be a year behind their peers, it will gain the distance between the knowledge and adaptation to university environmental. Moreover, young people might get in trouble with their plan because they see too many things, and they do not know what they need to do first. This could lead to break the plan and a gap year becomes a disaster.
In conclusion, taking a one-year break after high school has both negative and positive sides. Follow these aspects above, it can be seen that people will become more mature when they spend a year to join in other activities while others might have a feeling of inferiority complex when they have a year behind their friends or break the plan. People should think carefully before making a decision to take a gap year or not.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, if, may, moreover, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1359.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 291.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.67010309278 5.12529762239 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45447442045 2.80592935109 87% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.567010309278 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 414.0 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.0217439655 49.4020404114 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.25 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.25 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41666666667 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.198789422607 0.244688304435 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0792140535856 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0351292014309 0.0667982634062 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12426120244 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0224481595567 0.056905535591 39% => 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: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 50.2224549098 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.4159519038 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 78.4519038076 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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