Band 6: Describe a time you failed at something you really wanted to achieve. You should say: - What it was you were trying to achieve - What went wrong - How you felt afterward And explain what you learned from the experience. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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When I was preparing for a competitive exam, I was preparing for the SSC CGL. At that time, I wanted to become an excise inspector in that profile. I worked very hard; I burned the midnight oil during that time and studied carefully. I started preparing, and it took me five years to prepare for these things. When I tried to take the exam, time management was the most crucial thing for me. When I started practicing math, it took a lot of time to finish the equations, and the same was true for English because I was not very good at it at that time. I was also working during my preparation. I learned from this experience that you should not let yourself down in any situation. Just be ready for every situation and start preparing. When you fall, you will stand up, and this makes you stronger. You have to read daily and practice daily. When you fail at every step, you learn something new. You recognize the mistakes you made, and the next time, you will not repeat them.

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When I was preparing for competitive exam, I was prepared for the SSCCGL. At that time I want to become an exercise inspector in that profile. And I have so many hard work, I burned the midnight oil at that time. time and study carefully. When I start preparing like it’s for 5 years for me to prepare these things and when I try to give the exam at that time, time management is the most crucial thing for me because when I start writing about practicing about maths so in that case it takes lots of time at that time. It takes lots of time to finish this equation and for English as well because I am not so good at that time in my English. So, and I have also, I was also doing job in between of my preparation and I have learned from this experience that you not to have let yourself down in every situation just be ready for every situation and start preparing when you fall you will stand up and this makes you perfect and you have to read daily and practice daily and when you when you fail in every step you learn something new like you did that mistake and in the next time you will not repeat it again repeat again

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