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?
The trend of taking a year off between completing school education and joining university is increasing these days. While it provides an advantage of ample time for refreshing oneself and learning important skills, it could also lead to a mere waste of precious time.
On the one hand, a year off between finishing school and going to a university has several merits. To commence with, it provides students time to relax and rejuvenate themselves after toiling hard to get good marks in high school. Moreover, this time can be utilized by them for learning skills such as a foreign language, driving a car and preparing for competitive exams. For instance, 80 percent of the students who clear entrance exam for engineering are one-year droppers. These kids spend an entire year on studying and making them capable of cracking such exams. Also, kids prefer volunteering for charity work in this free one year period. Thus, a time span of twelve months can certainly have many benefits if planned properly.
On the other hand, there are some disadvantages of having a gap of one year in between high school and university study. Firstly, most students ends up wasting this entire time doing nothing. In fact, they even forget the concepts they had learned in the school and thus are made to double their efforts while pursuing tertiary study. Furthermore, some children who start working may lose their interest in studies and find it difficult to follow the academic timetable later. For instance, a student doing a job might think of never going to university again. So, the trend of year gap can have long lasting negative effects on the children.
In conclusion, a year's time off before pursuing tertiary education has advantages of better opportunities to learning and gaining experience. However, lack of proper planning can end up in the wastage of this valuable time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 16, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a year' or simply 'years'?
Suggestion: a year; years
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1577.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03833865815 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61959011014 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58785942492 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.9441303287 49.4020404114 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.7647058824 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4117647059 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.47058823529 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => 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: 0.242401291419 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0817243139707 0.084324248473 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0838060645382 0.0667982634062 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146565124421 0.151304729494 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0205240975725 0.056905535591 36% => 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: 11.5 13.0946893788 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => 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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