So, you’ve readour articleon reasons to take a gap year after your HSC and followed our advice—perhaps you spent the year travelling or working, or doing something else entirely. Great work!
I returned to study Mathematics after having travelled on and off for two years, and so I had to navigate the challenges involved with returning to full-time study after time off.
Thinking about giving uni a try? We’ve answered the questions you might have about starting uni after your gap year—let’s dive in!
Q1: Will you be disadvantaged when applying?
Q2: Is it hard to return to full-time study?
Q3: What about the social side?
Q1: Will you be disadvantaged when applying?
The short answer is no. After a gap year, you will apply to your desired university course exactly the way that everyone else does:through UAC.
The only difference is thatyou will need to tick a box to say that you are a ‘Non-Year 12 Applicant‘. Unfortunately,your application fee will be a little more expensive.
Other than that, however,UAC将以与其他人的方式相同的方式评估您的申请. This will mean that you will receive offers based on your ATAR in the same way everyone else does.
For the most part, you areno more or less likely to get into your courseas a result of your gap year.
Q2: Is it hard to return to full-time study?
Getting back into the rhythm offull-time study can be slightly jarring,certainly. Depending on what you’re doing (STEM vs. Humanities, for instance) it can feel more or less intense.
That being said,if you’ve spent your gap year working, you will almost certainly find full-time study to be less physically intense.The difficult adjustment to make is the idea of your leisure time—you will find that at different parts of the year, uni work will flood into the time that you are not physically spending at uni.
The key to success at uni is often beingorganised and able to keep track of multiple tasks. In this sense, the experience you gained during your gap year (whether travelling or working or other) will hold you in good stead.
Q3: What about the social side?
When you finish Year 12 and head straight to uni, everyone is on the same boat. You might have friends from school in your course, or at least you will be funnelled into a heap of friend-making orientation days.
As a ‘Non-Year 12’ entrant, you might find things a bit different—you might not feel the impulse to make a whole heap of friends straight away, since you’ve already been out of school for a year.I saw many people in similar situations spend the first year or two of their degree without really involving themselves in the social fabric of their degree.
Depending on what you’re studying, this might not work.As someone who is not coming straight from year 12 into their degree, you will need to make a more conscious effort to get to know people; join a society for your degree, get to know the people in your tutorials, etc.
The core idea is:make an effort. You will find your uni experience to be pretty lonely if you don’t make the effort to connect with other people in your course.无论您如何欣赏到您的学习多么热情，您将更好地为本公司，学者和非学制性。
Overall, you should be proud of yourself for taking the step back into full-time study. There will be some challenges, of course, but in the end hopefully the experience you gained in your year off will see you through.
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Travis McKenna刚刚做完了数学学位和菲尔osophy at the University of Sydney, and will be heading over to America for Grad School in the near future. He enjoys learning languages, playing cricket and writing short stories.
