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This is what our friend X from Europe shared with us about his General IELTS exam - thanks, X!

“I didn’t have any luck this time because there was a problem during the exam so I am pretty disappointed.

Listening

Some people couldn’t hear very well, that is because of bad audio setup. I requested to play the recording louder twice and didn’t bother much the second time. Further, wall clock couldn’t be seen by all the participants, especially those that sat behind like me, because it was on the teacher’s table and they said they couldn’t move it to another place, but in my previous exam they kept it in a good place in that same hall. I had a wrist watch, but that wall clock was very valuable to see the time easily for the time management.

Reading

1) Don’t remember the topic but many questions were True/False/Not Given
2) Passage about new methods for power energy with some scientists names and what they said about the problem
3) A lot of tasks were short answers – no more than 3 words.
4) Task of matching headings to paragraphs.

Writing

Task 1 (Letter)
Write a letter to airport authority describing what happened in the airport and how it affected you.

Task 2 (essay)
Should older people stay with their families or in nursing homes and alone on their final ages, what is your opinion.

Speaking

Interview

Card
Describe an animal that I you saw for the first time

Discussion

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