Recent content by jacquers

Sorry to hear that. May I ask if your results were available immediately or delayed? Mine were only available online a few days after the results were supposed to be done, but I didn't get an email that mine were being withheld or delayed. I'm actually still waiting for the physical TRF to be...

I think the IELTS writing is scored unfairly. I honestly thought I messed up my speaking, but scored 8.5, so it doesn't seem like they mark that too strictly. If the writing was scored the same I should have done better in it, at least as well as my speaking.

I received my results today from the test taken on 5 January 2019 Listening: 9.0 Reading: 8.5 Writing: 7.0 Speaking: 8.5 Overall Band: 8.5 I need 8 for the writing section. I don't feel like the marking is consistent over all the sections, if it was I should have either...

I think it was fund raising events.

No problem. I don't know if you did, but online practice tests will help you prepare. There are a lot of good sites, IELS Liz was one I used and https://ieltsonlinetests.com Online practice tests help, but I found that in the real test time goes by quicker than in practice.

You should always match it as closely as possible (usually exactly as used in the audio) because the words you have to fill in must be grammatically correct in the sentence. It's basically hearing copy & paste ;) E.g. Turtles have sharp claws they can use to scratch you (correct) Turtles...

I chose the one with trivial - it basically means easy. The opposite would be: The IELTS test is not trivial.

No... seems like you got everything wrong. Just kidding, yes it was streams. I'm stressing a bit about getting my desired result, but realize that theres is nothing I can really do now except to wait.

No, I think a chose a different answer.

I think I chose C and A

I don't remember the exact questions, sorry.

If I understood correctly all modules were 10 weeks long, but the courses had a different number of modules, so the courses were all a different length. The reading test was tricky, especially the last section.