Canada

Taking a gap year is a pretty normal practice worldwide although it's looked down upon in Asia. Regardless, the English proficiency tests will also consider the best scores you submit as you official scores and giving multiple attempts in IELTS and GRE shows dedication that you strive to improve your score. However, with the recent changes, the score barrier has gone up and certain people find it difficult to achieve the same. A better alterative would be to enroll in some form of study which would then allow you to scale up to a PR and a job opportunity in Canada. One of the interesting one's that I recently encountered is this Study & Work programme where you basically get to do a course while earning part-time and once you finish the course, you can work full time for about 6 months.