Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university to travel or gain work experience Do you think this is a good idea or a waste of time Give reasons for your answer and include any your relevant examples from your own knowledge or exper

Most of the people advocate students to take a year gap to either travel or work and gain experience before starting their tertiary education. There are various factors that are to be considered before taking an decision.

To embark on, taking a year gap before university education plays quite major role. Firstly, by travelling overseas student can gain invaluable experience from out side of the home grounds. They can meet various people, make new friends, learn new cultures and habituate to new food and expand their horizons. Significantly, students who start to work will be knowing the value of money and spends money wisely. For instance, student who work 8-9 hours a day and earn some bread a the end of the day for his work, he/she will not spend parents money unnecessarily for luxury because they know the pain and hard work behind the earnings.

On the other hand, some students who go far from home to explore world may feel homesick, resulting in mental stress and depression. For instance, a person who goes far from home grounds and suddenly remembers their family feeling homesick, after realizing that he could not go back to them until a year he might end up in some kind of stress. Additionally, people who start to work parallelly they earn money and get used to that work and forgets the further education, finally ending up as a dropout.

To sum up, it is an good idea for the students to take an year gap prior to their university education. The difficulties and worst case scenarios that students will be faced are also to be shown importance.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, if, may, so, for instance, kind of, to sum up, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1308.0 1615.20841683 81% => OK
No of words: 273.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79120879121 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55314245757 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 399.6 506.74238477 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8673198318 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.0 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.75 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.91666666667 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.01903807615 159% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209362549585 0.244688304435 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0874605789967 0.084324248473 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0670615090159 0.0667982634062 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145889298675 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533932272921 0.056905535591 94% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.58950901804 89% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 78.4519038076 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => 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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