That high school leavers are motivated to spend a year traveling around the world or having a job before enrolling in tertiary education has gained huge popularity these days. This trend, also known as “gap year”, would have both positive sides related to opportunities to realize the students’ interests as well as to develop life skills and a negative side about the interruption of the learning process.
On the one hand, there are two main advantages for students taking a year off. First, they would have a chance to gain a better sense of self given that they have more time to explore the real world. By working or traveling prior to university education, these students could discover their interests and passions, leading to informed decisions about career options later. To exemplify this, I shall make reference to data from a worldwide survey conducted in 2018 showing that the drop-out rate from university due to choosing the wrong major in students picking the course after taking a “gap year” is around 10 percent less compared to those going straight to university. Another positive aspect is that the students would develop essential skills throughout a year off. It could mean learning a language while living abroad, honing interpersonal and leadership skills while working on a project or campaign, or gaining hands-on experience through a job or internship. Such skills would play a vital role in students’ academic study and give them an advantage in coping with the challenges of student life.
On the other hand, one significant disadvantage of taking a year off between high school graduation and tertiary education is that it can be a distraction from further studies since some students find such breaks so relaxing and enjoyable that they lose their academic momentum. They may start to immerse themselves in earning money and becoming financially independent, making them give less importance to their studies. Unfortunately, their career prospects are likely to be affected considering that it would surely be essential to have good academic qualifications to become more competitive in the job market these days. Worse still, if the students did not acquire fundamental knowledge of their major, they would struggle throughout their life to make a good living given being unskilled and have less chance for advanced studies or further promotion.
In conclusion, discovering career passions and sharpening important skills would be the two positive aspects of the year taken before university education. Nonetheless, the problem for high school leavers would be the reluctance to continue their higher education.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 306, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...ties to realize the students’ interests as well as to develop life skills and a negative s...
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Line 4, column 265, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nce to continue their higher education.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, nonetheless, so, still, well, while, as to, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2239.0 1615.20841683 139% => OK
No of words: 422.0 315.596192385 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30568720379 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80161839112 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 176.041082164 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552132701422 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 506.74238477 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
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: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.9696455794 49.4020404114 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.266666667 106.682146367 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1333333333 20.7667163134 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.33333333333 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => 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: 0.140239683799 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0532842187434 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0398458404511 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0915783218344 0.151304729494 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00786650829363 0.056905535591 14% => 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: 17.6 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 50.2224549098 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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