in some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school and starting university studies. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for young people who decide to do this.
In a few nations, it is becoming common for young people to take a year off to work or travel after high school and before joining the university. The main benefit of this trend is that they can gain some experience and get admission in top universities and the major drawback is that it can effect their grades in college.
When students work or travel after high school they can get enrolled themselves in the best universities because of their one-year experience. In other words, some universities such as Harvard University and Princeton College prefer students with some work experience. Therefore, students can be selected in these colleges easily because they have additional a year's experience than the other students. For example, a report published by the New York Times suggested that 60% of students selected in top universities in the UK were those who have taken a gap year after high school.
The major disadvantage of this approach is that they might get low scores in their academics because they can be distracted from studies. That is to say that, when students rejoin college after a long break it can be difficult for them to concentrate on studies. As a result, it can effect their academic performance, and they may get low grades. For instance, according to a recent survey by the Guardian 30% of students who join college after a gap year got lower scores than other students who did not take a year off.
In conclusion, taking a gap year is beneficial because students can get admission to the best universities due to their experience. However, lower grades and poor academic performance is a major drawback.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in other words, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1375.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92831541219 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75412055773 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 176.041082164 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483870967742 0.561755894193 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 423.9 506.74238477 84% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.9187336145 49.4020404114 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.583333333 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5833333333 7.06120827912 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224010153584 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0908884789075 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806486778252 0.0667982634062 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147296783698 0.151304729494 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0803920595109 0.056905535591 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => 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: 11.61 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 78.4519038076 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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