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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. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words.

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It's going to be common between some nations to have a
gap
 of a
year
 between high
school
 and university. As they can use
this
gap
 for working or going abroad for fun. Taking a break between high
school
 and
the
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university has some clear benefits and some drawbacks. On
one
 hand, it's good to work for a
year
 after high
school
. Because we can earn good money as a saving, so when we want to continue our higher education, we will have a good budget.
Hence
, we don't need to go for a loan and add more stress on ourselves.
Moreover
, going abroad after graduating from high
school
 can help us to celebrate our success. And that would be enough time to relax
ourselves
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and make us ready for university without the previous anxiety that we got from high
school
.
On the other hand
,
this
 is a good idea to don't waste our time and constantly continue our education. It's clear,
one
year
 is not a short period of time. ,
Definitely
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 we will forget our previous lessons. Because we will not be in contact with our study for
one
 or more years. To give a clear example of my experience, I took
one
year
gap
 between my study, after high
school
. Just because of
this
 that I wanted to get married, and I went back home. When I came back from my back home
,
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 and went to college I felt that I forget a lot of staff. Which needs a strong review that took me a month to prepare myself for college. To sum ,up the topic, taking a
gap
 between high
school
 and higher education has some positive
points
 and some negative
points
. Which plus
points
 overweight its minus
points
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
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  • Life experience
  • Work ethic
  • Career readiness
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