The Exam is over
9 Dec, 2006
I’m off to the Polytech in 30mins. Yep, I’m sitting the IELTS exam today. Honestly, I’m quite nervous, but weird thing is that I’m kinda excited. Dunno why. I’m listening to the music at the mo to make myself relaxed. I hope I’ll have felt good after the exam. As it’s the biggest ever for me, I’m under a pressure. But a bit of it would bring me a good effect eh. I’ll see what happens. Hahaha. I’ll update ASAP. Ciao ciao.
10 Dec, 06
Well, the exam was ok, I think. Writing was really tough though… If I could, I’d like to write the essay, especially task 1, again… I know “It is no use crying over spilt milk”, but… aww… I’m really not sure about the result. It’s gonna be really stressful to wait until the result comes out on the 21st.
Anyway, speaking was okay. In fact, I talked a lot because while I was talking for part 1, the examiner’s alarm beeped while I was still talking, so I asked her if it was okay to finish what I was about to say. Then she said ok, so I did. In the second part, I was given a topic “vehicle”. Questions were something like “What kind of vehicle would you like to have and why?”, “Do you think if you would have that car in the future?” and so on… My dream car would be a medium sized car which has big space on the back so that I can load my snowboard and gears. LOL Also it should be handy to go into the town. Hahaha. I’m quite fussy, eh? Then in the last part, we had a discussion about vehicle. “What do you think about car advertisement?”, “What’s your opinion about the government building new roads?” and etc…
During the lunch time, I went into the town to have something, but my Korean friend who is so selfish(actually he’s not my friend) started playing chess at the Cathedral Square. I couldn’t believe him. What’s the reason to do that at the moment? I told him that I would go somewhere warm cos’ it was freezing!!! But he asked me to wait for him just 5 mins. I was really sure it would be impossible to finish chess in 5 mins. So, I left the Square anyway cos’ I didn’t wanna get a cold and how come did I have to wait for him? He started to play the game. That’s all. I don’t care what he thinks about me. What I cared then was the exam. I needed to concentrate on the exam. Different from him, I don’t have so many chances. I didn’t talk to him after that. Hahaha. I don’t care at all. I don’t think that I was selfish. I was just sensible.
Well, I’m getting back to the point now. I often end up talking something which has nothing to do with the topic I have talked about. Hahaha. Oops, I think I’m doing that again. LOL Now, I’m telling you about the exam. In the afternoon, I had listening, reading and writing. During the listening, I had a problem with my pencil. While I was writing down, it suddenly stopped working well. I mean…how many times I pressed the button, it didn’t work. I missed at least 4 questions because of that. Hmm, except for that part, it was okay. I found reading easier than practice readings. :-) Plus, the articles were quite familiar with me. Those were about “garbage problems”, “something taken from dead whale and used for the material to make perfume”(I totally forgot what the thing is called though) and the last one was about “pests, problems and solutions”. Although those articles were familiar, I had to think carefully because there were heaps of yes/no/not given and true/false/not given questions. What I mean is that I might be able to answer without a close look at the article, so that means that these might be affected by my knowledge.
Anyway, let’s move on to the writing. It was the toughest part in the exam. The task 1 was describing a table… When opened the question book, I was like, “OMG, it cannot be true… This one is my least favorite”. LOL It’s the easiest way to arrange and see the numbers, but it’s most difficult to process and describe because there are lots of information on it. I had a difficulty in it, so it took me more than 20mins even though I was supposed to finish the task 1 in 20mins. That means that I had less time for the task 2 essay. Well, actually task 2 was easier than the first one. The topic was something like...umm…cannot remember. I dunno why my brain doesn’t work well recently. I try to remember as much as I can. “More and more modern buildings can be seen in cities and towns, and some people claim that these change the appearance and tradition. Therefore, countries should insist building traditional buildings instead of modern buildings. Do you agree of disagree?” Hmm, something like this. I wrote one sided essay, by the way. I took a side of “disagree” by raising merits of modern buildings such as security, endurance to earthquakes and saving space. In addition, I mentioned that it’d be possible to keep a balance between those buildings in conclusion with an example of Kyoto.
Well, that’s everything about the exam, I think. I have to wait 13 days from now. Huh… it’ll be the longest 13 days ever. I hate waiting!!! :-(
I’m off to the Polytech in 30mins. Yep, I’m sitting the IELTS exam today. Honestly, I’m quite nervous, but weird thing is that I’m kinda excited. Dunno why. I’m listening to the music at the mo to make myself relaxed. I hope I’ll have felt good after the exam. As it’s the biggest ever for me, I’m under a pressure. But a bit of it would bring me a good effect eh. I’ll see what happens. Hahaha. I’ll update ASAP. Ciao ciao.
10 Dec, 06
Well, the exam was ok, I think. Writing was really tough though… If I could, I’d like to write the essay, especially task 1, again… I know “It is no use crying over spilt milk”, but… aww… I’m really not sure about the result. It’s gonna be really stressful to wait until the result comes out on the 21st.
Anyway, speaking was okay. In fact, I talked a lot because while I was talking for part 1, the examiner’s alarm beeped while I was still talking, so I asked her if it was okay to finish what I was about to say. Then she said ok, so I did. In the second part, I was given a topic “vehicle”. Questions were something like “What kind of vehicle would you like to have and why?”, “Do you think if you would have that car in the future?” and so on… My dream car would be a medium sized car which has big space on the back so that I can load my snowboard and gears. LOL Also it should be handy to go into the town. Hahaha. I’m quite fussy, eh? Then in the last part, we had a discussion about vehicle. “What do you think about car advertisement?”, “What’s your opinion about the government building new roads?” and etc…
During the lunch time, I went into the town to have something, but my Korean friend who is so selfish(actually he’s not my friend) started playing chess at the Cathedral Square. I couldn’t believe him. What’s the reason to do that at the moment? I told him that I would go somewhere warm cos’ it was freezing!!! But he asked me to wait for him just 5 mins. I was really sure it would be impossible to finish chess in 5 mins. So, I left the Square anyway cos’ I didn’t wanna get a cold and how come did I have to wait for him? He started to play the game. That’s all. I don’t care what he thinks about me. What I cared then was the exam. I needed to concentrate on the exam. Different from him, I don’t have so many chances. I didn’t talk to him after that. Hahaha. I don’t care at all. I don’t think that I was selfish. I was just sensible.
Well, I’m getting back to the point now. I often end up talking something which has nothing to do with the topic I have talked about. Hahaha. Oops, I think I’m doing that again. LOL Now, I’m telling you about the exam. In the afternoon, I had listening, reading and writing. During the listening, I had a problem with my pencil. While I was writing down, it suddenly stopped working well. I mean…how many times I pressed the button, it didn’t work. I missed at least 4 questions because of that. Hmm, except for that part, it was okay. I found reading easier than practice readings. :-) Plus, the articles were quite familiar with me. Those were about “garbage problems”, “something taken from dead whale and used for the material to make perfume”(I totally forgot what the thing is called though) and the last one was about “pests, problems and solutions”. Although those articles were familiar, I had to think carefully because there were heaps of yes/no/not given and true/false/not given questions. What I mean is that I might be able to answer without a close look at the article, so that means that these might be affected by my knowledge.
Anyway, let’s move on to the writing. It was the toughest part in the exam. The task 1 was describing a table… When opened the question book, I was like, “OMG, it cannot be true… This one is my least favorite”. LOL It’s the easiest way to arrange and see the numbers, but it’s most difficult to process and describe because there are lots of information on it. I had a difficulty in it, so it took me more than 20mins even though I was supposed to finish the task 1 in 20mins. That means that I had less time for the task 2 essay. Well, actually task 2 was easier than the first one. The topic was something like...umm…cannot remember. I dunno why my brain doesn’t work well recently. I try to remember as much as I can. “More and more modern buildings can be seen in cities and towns, and some people claim that these change the appearance and tradition. Therefore, countries should insist building traditional buildings instead of modern buildings. Do you agree of disagree?” Hmm, something like this. I wrote one sided essay, by the way. I took a side of “disagree” by raising merits of modern buildings such as security, endurance to earthquakes and saving space. In addition, I mentioned that it’d be possible to keep a balance between those buildings in conclusion with an example of Kyoto.
Well, that’s everything about the exam, I think. I have to wait 13 days from now. Huh… it’ll be the longest 13 days ever. I hate waiting!!! :-(
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