IELTS

On Saturday, me and three of my friends are taking an IELTS exam. IELTS is short for International English Language Testing System, so in other words: we are going to take a test to see how our English level is. The test consists of four parts; reading, writing, listening and speaking and you are graded for each part. Then the four results are put together and you get one grade on a scale from 1 to 9, 9 being the highest.

To prepare for the exam, David, our former IELTS teacher, put together a mock exam for us. We did the reading and writing parts yesterday, and the listening and speaking parts today. The reading did not go so well. I got 6.5 and I'm not too happy about that. We haven't got out writing tasks back yet, so I don't know how that went, but probably somewhere around the same area. Today was a little bit better. I got 8.5 on the listening (39 correct of 40) and Rosie gave me an 7/7.5 on the speaking. If I get a combined result of 7.5 I will be pretty happy. My problem is that I'm not formal enough. I don't have a complex vocabulary when it comes to tests. I usually know a lot of high level vocabulary, but when I'm doing a test I normally go for the easy version. (Det enkleste er ofte the beste, as the ad says).

All I know is that I am going to be very happy when I'm finished with this test.