Hello everyone, it's me again with my own story of conquering IELTS. Today, I continue to tell you more about my very first days of this journey when I HAD NO IDEAS of the test and how I can find my own ways.
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| Where do we go, honey ??????????? |
To begin with, as I was saying, I started to learn IELTS at the end of the first year, which was totally new to me. After I completed the second communication course at AMA English center, I had a quite good ability to communicate English but unfortunately, I spoke like the wind, which made other people including my foreign teachers and my friends find difficult to understand. Furthermore, this made me get stuck sometimes in thinking of new ideas and even worse, I lost my pace and my flow was clipped. After that, I thought about IELTS through the introduction of Mrs Trinh, the manager at ALCE classes at AMA. She said to me that I was very competent and I could push myself to the limit if I learnt IELTS then. Right then, I decided to do the mock test at AMA, in which I was ranked in Pre-Intermediate Level, which made me feel disappointed for several days. One week later, I made a decision to learn IELTS because I thought that I would not have enough time whether I waited till the third year. So, my journey began!
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At first, I searched on the Internet those kinds of book that I could make use of during my study. After a while, I chose GET READY FOR READING and WRITING, which actually did not help me much :| Why do I say that? Well, to be honest, the books only help me have an overview about what IELTS is, how many passages in the reading paper, or how many tasks in writing, etc , all of which I could have searched on the net without photocopying those materials and spending more than one month trying to digest that basic knowledge. Anyway, two of them are all contributors to my success, sooner or later :)
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| Here they are :) |
So, what I did next? I then made every effort to do the mock test at home, including Reading and listening. I did many tests in one night, especially listening, I remember the first time I did it, I used to listen to the recordings three times without noticing that the candidate is only capable of listening only one time. However, my scores vaired, ranging from 5.0 to 7.0 ( OMG - 7.0 @@' ), which made me feel confused and did not know what I had to do next. After many attempts, I asked myself whether I did anything wrong or not, why my listening and reading score was so bad that I thought I was like a basic learner, while I got 8.5 in the university entrance exammination. Needless to say, at that time, I was kind of obssessed with my past victory and I tended to sit on my laurel for so long.
At that time, I used to hear of the techque which helps me improve my listening skills until now and it is called " Transribing method". Nevertheless, due to the fact that it would take a great deal of my free time, I did not apply it. Thus, from May 2015 to July 2015, I was engrossed in doing Listening test and not finding out what was my real problem. I felt as if I was getting stuck in a maze that had no entracne as well as exit, which gave me some splitting headaches once in a bluemoon. Furthermore, I was in hurry at that time, since I thought that I would not complete my IELTS test and get 8.0 in the last year, so all of them seem to be a great burden to me, which enforces me to try harder and find the solutions as soon as possible.
To be continued.......
