It is becoming increasingly popular to have a year off between finishing school and joining universities. What are the advantages or disadvantages?
Of late, it has become increasingly popular among students to take a gap year after finishing high school. This practice enables them to relax and have fun with friends or family. During this period they can also travel or learn new things. However, in my opinion, taking a break after high school and before joining university does have some drawbacks.
The biggest advantage of taking a break is that students get an opportunity to relax and learn some valuable life lessons during this period. At high school students are under tremendous pressure to get high scores. Consequently, they have to study for prolonged hours, complete many assignments and spend many sleepless nights. For instance, a cousin of mine who took her high school public exam last year was always occupied with her studies, tuition and record work. She rarely went to bed before midnight. Furthermore, she stayed away from family events or parties for the year. Obviously, students take great pains to do well in their exams and they deserve a break after high school. During this period they can travel or find a part-time job that enables them to learn new skills that might help them in the future. Traveling or working part-time will also give them an idea of what to expect when they have to travel for work or studies in the future.
On the flip side, taking a break from studies can have some negative effects. To start with, many students will simply waste this time doing nothing useful. Another disadvantage is that when students take a break, they may lose interest in studies. Actually, many of them will never go to university. In addition, because of this discontinuity students may forget many concepts they learned at school. Consequently, when they join university they will have to work doubly hard.
To conclude, taking a gap year after high school is only beneficial for those students who use that time to engage in something productive. Those who take this break to relax and have fun will have to work harder when they join university after a year. Worse, some of them may never join university.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, consequently, furthermore, however, if, may, so, well, for instance, in addition, in my opinion, to start with
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: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1746.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 358.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87709497207 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42613805782 2.80592935109 86% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497206703911 0.561755894193 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 532.8 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.2699523082 49.4020404114 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.3636363636 106.682146367 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2727272727 20.7667163134 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72727272727 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174724224768 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0555909254855 0.084324248473 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616252133353 0.0667982634062 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130979696957 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0574112392021 0.056905535591 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.0946893788 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.4159519038 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.3 8.58950901804 85% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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