Some students take one year off between finishing school and going to university, in order to travel or to work. Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

It is a controversial matter that whether it is necessary for students to take a gay year. Some people hold that every graduate student from high school should try to be integrated into the society for one year. From my point of view, there is not an absolute answer, as both sides can be reasonable on account of several extents.

On the one hand, people aiming at applying for a job immediately after graduating may be highly interested to work in the gap year. As nowadays much emphasis has been put on the work experience when applying for a job, people have to promote their curriculum vitae by getting more jobs during the university as possible as they can. Besides, the experience of travel or work can give students a more mature outlook on what kind of career fit themselves most. Students who are willing to study humanism or art, for example, might receive a broader vision on what they are going to specialize by the integration with different culture and society.

On the other hand, there is certainly some worry about the gap year. First, Students might be off track from school if being outside the school life for a long time. Some students in China, for example, might dream of being free and off school forever because they see high school as an exam-oriented cage, and the college entrance examination might be seen as the end of their study. Second, not a few families probably cannot afford the costly fee to support their children for a gap year. They might be living in dire life which they find difficult to sustain their daily life let alone paying extra money for their children`s gap year.

In conclusion, the gap year is certainly beneficial for some people to a certain degree but can also bring unexpected results. Indeed, it depends not only on a student`s own career planning but also on the context, including family and education system, of the individual.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, look, may, second, so, for example, in conclusion, kind of, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1583.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 331.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78247734139 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58957682339 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570996978852 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 490.5 506.74238477 97% => 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: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3887123526 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.071428571 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6428571429 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175806189098 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07039255658 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0448238097614 0.0667982634062 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108274985185 0.151304729494 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0299529663503 0.056905535591 53% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.4159519038 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => 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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