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Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university, to travel or gain work experience. Do you think this is a good idea or a waste of time? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.

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After you successfully graduate from school, you don’t have much time to think about where are you going to study and what kind of field you might like to
work in afterwards
Suggestion
work afterwards
. That’s why some people take a
gap
year
 before starting
university
. My opinion on
this
 situation is that you should take a
gap
year
 before coming up with the
university
 where you would like to study. It’s hard to say how the person will spend that
year
. There are some people who are happy to spend their
gap
year
 partying and clubbing.
However
, the other part of graduated people are going to study hard, trying to get some work
experience
. The
first
 part will get nothing from existing outside an education system, while the
second
 part will be able to make a balanced decision about
university
. In fact, some people, who have some thoughts about their
university
 use given
year
 to gain some
experience
. Using
this
experience
 they are able to build up a resume, which is a very important feature of
creative universities’ admission processes
Suggestion
the creative universities’ admission processes
.
On the other hand
, you might be very unlucky, if you get stronger applying students
next
year
.
However
,
this
 is just the matter of chance, so if you want to overcome
this
 problem, you should spend that
year
 working for better exam results (SAT or IELTS). I would like to give an example from my own life. I was 18 when I tried to get in the number one cinema
university
 in Russia. There were a lot of clever people applying that
year
, so there was stiff competition. I realized that I didn’t have much chance to get into the
university
 that
year
. I took a
year
 to gain some
experience
 and a
year
 after working on the stage I got into the
university
 on a scholarship. In conclusion, I would like to say that a
gap
year
 is a good opportunity to start establishing yourself in a particular area of work, but you can’t guarantee your success and one hundred percent admission to
university
 afterwards.
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