It’s becoming more and more popular to have a year off between graduating the school and entering the University. Point out the advantages and disadvantages of this.

There is a tendency that pupils after graduating from school may have one

year

or more

years

break before attending higher education.

This

may cause minuses and

also

pluses

such

as in terms of benefits, it gives enough time to a future student for thinking thoroughly about following

university

course. In the case of drawbacks,

students

may sometimes lose an opportunity of receiving scholarships in an exact

year

.

Firstly

, after many hardworking school

years

, the young people need a break for understanding what they want later on. Numerous people hesitate about choosing the right

university

and appropriate graduating course.

Therefore

, one

year

or two

years

break is an awesome option for them to figure out comprehensively. Namely, my brother had travelled for two

years

in European countries and during that period had much time to enter

University

, meet several alumni and based on his research get ready to submit an upcoming course application.

Secondly

, there is a certain type of scholarship that provides a fully-funded opportunity for an exact

year

and they may announce it three months before attending the

university

. To illustrate

this

, when I studied at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, I had to receive an undergraduate diploma. During that period, I was exhausted and decided to finish my studying period completely and after that go to work as a trainee in some musical group.

At

Change preposition

In

show examples

that

year

there was emerge an unknown scholarship for me and it announced on the boards of the conservatory about searching for outstanding

students

for funding them to participate in foreign countries' orchestras. Later on, I comprehended that I had not paid careful attention to the announcement and in case of applying for it perhaps I may win the scholarship. To sum up, having a gap

year

for

students

can be a nice privilege while for others it can be a long pause and create some unnecessary obstacles.

Thus

,

this

can lead to both privileges and disadvantages for academic

students

depending on their expectations and demands.