Just DO it !
I woke up at 6:30 in the morning.
At about 8:15 I came to the Crowne Plaza hotel, where I found about 100 candidates waiting for the start of the registration.
The examination started at 9 a.m.
The only thing that I hate about the exam, is that it was extremely cold in the hall. It felt like I was back in my school years. There were always heating problems and we had to put our coats on.. but nobody would let us to take coats at the examination.. So everyone was shaking, but determined to survive all 3.5 hours.
The first one was the listening part - my favorite. It wasn't difficult for me. But some of my friends told me they had a problem doing a 'spelling' part. The man from the recording was speaking very fast - not everyone managed to get all the letters. Thank god I have a good memory for things that I hear and can replay it in my mind. (I have to say thanks for my musical education).
The second part - reading. The first passage was very interesting - it was actually difficult to resist reading it until the end. (It was called 'A man or a machine', about robots). But you have to know specific techniques to do these reading tasks. You will never be able to finish it in time, if you start normally reading passages. The only way to complete it duly - is scanning and skimming. I finished it 10 minutes earlier and had some time to relax.
The last part - writing. There were 2 writing tasks. The first one was a description of two pie charts about employees, who chose learning a foreign language. It was not difficult. The data was introduced in a normal, understandable way - there were no tricks.
Second part - an essay. 'It is believed, that rich countries should not hire skilled workers such as doctors, engineers and scientists from the poor countries because poor countries need them more. To which extent do you agree or disagree?' - it does not seem impossible. I disagreed and wrote 3 arguments to support my opinion. I didn't count how many words I wrote, but it looked like more than 250. And the task says: write at least 250 words. I completed this part 7 minutes earlier.
It was much more warmer outside, when I left the hotel! I think they really have to consider the temperature at the conference hall.
Well, anyway I am glad everything is finally over. I decided to collect my results from the British Council by myself. It seems more convenient than waiting it to arrive by post.
Now I have 2 reasons to wait for 29th of April.
At about 8:15 I came to the Crowne Plaza hotel, where I found about 100 candidates waiting for the start of the registration.
The examination started at 9 a.m.
The only thing that I hate about the exam, is that it was extremely cold in the hall. It felt like I was back in my school years. There were always heating problems and we had to put our coats on.. but nobody would let us to take coats at the examination.. So everyone was shaking, but determined to survive all 3.5 hours.
The first one was the listening part - my favorite. It wasn't difficult for me. But some of my friends told me they had a problem doing a 'spelling' part. The man from the recording was speaking very fast - not everyone managed to get all the letters. Thank god I have a good memory for things that I hear and can replay it in my mind. (I have to say thanks for my musical education).
The second part - reading. The first passage was very interesting - it was actually difficult to resist reading it until the end. (It was called 'A man or a machine', about robots). But you have to know specific techniques to do these reading tasks. You will never be able to finish it in time, if you start normally reading passages. The only way to complete it duly - is scanning and skimming. I finished it 10 minutes earlier and had some time to relax.
The last part - writing. There were 2 writing tasks. The first one was a description of two pie charts about employees, who chose learning a foreign language. It was not difficult. The data was introduced in a normal, understandable way - there were no tricks.
Second part - an essay. 'It is believed, that rich countries should not hire skilled workers such as doctors, engineers and scientists from the poor countries because poor countries need them more. To which extent do you agree or disagree?' - it does not seem impossible. I disagreed and wrote 3 arguments to support my opinion. I didn't count how many words I wrote, but it looked like more than 250. And the task says: write at least 250 words. I completed this part 7 minutes earlier.
It was much more warmer outside, when I left the hotel! I think they really have to consider the temperature at the conference hall.
Well, anyway I am glad everything is finally over. I decided to collect my results from the British Council by myself. It seems more convenient than waiting it to arrive by post.
Now I have 2 reasons to wait for 29th of April.
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17.04.2011 в 22:39я теперь тоже жду 29го!
скрестила за тебя кулачки итд.
но думаю, что все у тебя супер. ты же умничка!
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17.04.2011 в 23:43-
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18.04.2011 в 18:11