Some students prefer to take a gap between high school and university, to work or to travel. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages
Over the past decade, taking a gap year between high school and post-secondary has become a prevalent and publicly recognized phenomenon. Although this may bring several downsides for students, the returns are highly justifiable.
On one hand, students deferring entry to university appear to have better opportunities to participate in constructive activities such as travelling, volunteering and working. In fact, spending time traveling during the gap year gets student exposed to different cultures and lifestyles. Such exposure will certainly help them not only make sense of the world, but also cultivate well-rounded minds for better functioning academically. Besides, by getting their hands on various tasks through volunteering and working, students are more likely to accrue practical experience, thereby becoming more mature, acquiring better job prospects, and gaining a new appreciation for their college degrees. Even a blue-collar job performed in the year break can be an excellent source of understanding how the real world might look like after their graduation.
On the other hand, there are certain disadvantages students need to consider. First, apparently taking a year off means they will have to graduate one year later than they would otherwise. This would inevitably lead to lose wages. Also, one might argue the gap year is not as valuable as the one that is lost after graduation since this is the ideal time to kick-start their careers and start building professional networks. In addition, it might take students some time to make several adjustments before settling back to studies.
In conclusion, although putting off one or two years of post-secondary education comes at a cost, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages. Taking a short break seems to be a more plausible alternative if they are justified by constructive and fulfilling pursuits during that time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, besides, but, first, if, look, may, second, so, still, well, in addition, 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 : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1613.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48639455782 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07566698919 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.646258503401 0.561755894193 115% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4501938673 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.214285714 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1428571429 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188711524791 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0641729485699 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0510122743815 0.0667982634062 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115329461298 0.151304729494 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0558000234261 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.