Your gap year’s first 90 days: a practical plan
Turn “I’m taking a gap year” into a real first quarter with a focus, a weekly rhythm, and enough room to test what fits.
Read the field noteStart with a plan that can change.
The strongest gap years have direction without becoming rigid. This is the practical place to begin.
Useful, honest, and made for real life.
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Money & budgeting
What does a gap year actually cost?
A grounded South African budget with three very different ways to structure the year.
Build your budgetParent corner
How to support a gap year without running it
Clear expectations, useful questions, and a simple agreement that keeps everyone on the same side.
Read the parent guideOpportunities
Find work that teaches you something
Use role, rhythm, and responsibility to judge an opportunity — not just the title.
Browse opportunitiesParent corner
Parent guide to the NBT
Understand AQL and MAT, university requirements, booking, fees, preparation, results, and the dates your family needs to track.
Make sense of the NBTParent corner · South Africa
Re-mark vs rewrite: what should your child do?
Work out whether a disappointing matric result needs a re-check, a re-mark, or a properly planned rewrite.
Compare the optionsParent corner · South Africa
What if my child doesn't get into university?
Diagnose what happened, compare the credible routes still open, and build a useful next twelve months.
Build Plan BThat notebook is still open.
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