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 few countries students after finishing their high school, are supposed to work or travel for a calendar year, before they begin their studies in the university. In my opinion, it would a good start as a career to get some practical experience.

If we try to visualize and study the life span of humans, it is utmost clear that more than half of our life is spent in practical experience rather then what we learn in the academics. Although, its not deniable as far as it is concerned that academics is remarkably important. By gaining a work experience, prior going to university, can be imagined in long term benefit when student completes the studies eventually it will benefit as already the negotiating and competitive skill have been developed. Those who consider career path in non academic field, can explore wide options of socializing and real-time exposure to the world.

Downside of it, there will be an year of gap in the formal education. And joining late in the industry to be the part of workforce will be more competitive, as students from other countries which do not follow this process of an year of training are professionally ahead and retirement age will be more. Staying off from the academics for such a period of time can result in loss of flow to studies and getting aligned to the career oriented mind set take time.

But it depends from individual to individual, as to what extent of benefit can be gained from both these options. Every human is distinct it wont be wrong to say, perceiving your goals is in your hands.

Concluding on this, gaining a 12 months of break from the university studies, can give an insight of real life examples and preparing oneself for scenarios which will not be faced sitting in a class room.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, then, as to, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74350649351 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68213065379 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613636363636 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 459.0 506.74238477 91% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.3636964887 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.75 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6666666667 20.7667163134 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.25 7.06120827912 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128724015826 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0444440296544 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0571341232878 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0798987539249 0.151304729494 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0743288638643 0.056905535591 131% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 50.2224549098 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.4159519038 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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