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

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or more

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break before attending higher education.

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may cause minuses and

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pluses

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

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course. In the case of drawbacks,

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may sometimes lose an opportunity of receiving scholarships in an exact

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.

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, after many hardworking school

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

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and appropriate graduating course.

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, one

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or two

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

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

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

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

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and they may announce it three months before attending the

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. To illustrate

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, 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.

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

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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

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for

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

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,

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can lead to both privileges and disadvantages for academic

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depending on their expectations and demands.