It is becoming increasingly popular to have a year off between finishing school and going to university. What are the advantage and disadvantages of this?

In recent times, an increasing number of students are taking a gap year. While this trend helps students in getting benefits in many ways, there are also certain limitations that need to be considered. Both the advantages as well as the disadvantages will be dicussed in this essay.

On the one hand, taking a year's break can be beneficial for students in multiple ways. Students can effectively spend this valuable time visiting different countries, leading to a better understanding of different cultures. This helps them to learn the cultural differences and apply this valuable knowledge in their prospective jobs. Additionally, students can also get a chance to work in industry and learn invaluable work experience. This enables them to understand the current workforce demands, enabling them to make informed decision for further studies.

On the other hand, Taking a gap year may have adverse effect on students as well. There is a good chance that students will not go back to the college for further studies as they may have started earning money and might find it difficult to leave and go for further study, which can affect their career in long-run. Morever, they may find that their friends have moved ahead by a year or more in their studies, which may create a sense of discouragement, forcing them to make new friends who are possibly younger than them.

Overall, Taking a gap year may be challenging decision, it has to be made by considering all the different aspects it may impact in long term, and the decision should be taken at individual level.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, so, well, while, as to, as well as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1318.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 264.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99242424242 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74329259649 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.568181818182 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 396.0 506.74238477 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => 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: 51.856305199 49.4020404114 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.833333333 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.133015089657 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0567579299798 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0388114901559 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0818814240926 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0442049386138 0.056905535591 78% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => 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: 11.66 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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