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The ielts english exam

  • 02-02-2021 4:25pm
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    Just wondering if anyone has experience of this?

    Agency wants me to pay 600 quid to stidy for it...

    I mean, i did honours english and am a native irish speaker. Surely be grand?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Agency wants me to pay 600 quid to stidy for it...
    Agency? Does this include virtual teacher? I think I did the middle one at https://www.ieltspractice.com/compare/ for $80
    I mean, i did honours english and am a native irish speaker. Surely be grand?
    Maybe, maybe not. The benefit of the IELTS over CELPIP is that you speak to a physical person who marks on the commonwealth language. But you have to write the essays by hand.

    CELPIP you type, but you speak to a computer, which doesn't feel very natural. My writing is atrocious, and missed the spell check from the CELPIP :pac: but found that I did grand.

    I got my best score with IELTS, and got enough to get the bonus points; if you can score CLB 9 in all sections, you get up to 260 Express Entry points.

    =-=

    They want you to speak and answer a certain way. Although some people get the max marks first time around, if you don't do well the first time around get the study materials.


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