Mention any projects, programmes, self-learning you've participated in (inflate the importance of these somewhat) to at least break it up. Now, assuming that you've broken up the big gap into smaller gaps, write a simple and straightforward explanation about your situation at the end talking about all the gaps in general. Just write what you wrote here about the job market but more professionally. Don't overthink it, some random professor will most likely spend 2-3 minutes looking at it. If you're applying to some mid uni (I mean any uni that isn't a cutthroat uni in the US or UK) and your bachelor's GPA was like 3.2ish+ then you'll be fine. You'll just be in the middle of the batch, and depending on how many students applied that semester you'll have an alright chance at the least.
Mention any projects, programmes, self-learning you've participated in (inflate the importance of these somewhat) to at least break it up. Now, assuming that you've broken up the big gap into smaller gaps, write a simple and straightforward explanation about your situation at the end talking about all the gaps in general. Just write what you wrote here about the job market but more professionally. Don't overthink it, some random professor will most likely spend 2-3 minutes looking at it. If you're applying to some mid uni (I mean any uni that isn't a cutthroat uni in the US or UK) and your bachelor's GPA was like 3.2ish+ then you'll be fine. You'll just be in the middle of the batch, and depending on how many students applied that semester you'll have an alright chance at the least.