Band 5: Describe a time when you had to make a difficult decision without consulting anyone. You should say: what the decision was, why you had to make it alone, what the outcome was, and explain how you felt during the process. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Honestly, yeah, I had this type of situation when you have difficult decisions and you have to choose, you have to make decisions, and I've had a lot of these kinds of difficult decisions, and most of them I made on my own, so I can perfectly say that now I can be myself. And I had one difficult decision that would completely change my whole life. I mean, really my whole life. And I had to choose, I had to make decisions fast, because my parents and other people put me in a kind of embarrassing and pressure situation. It was choosing the major. Yeah, after ninth grade, I switched to tenth grade, and I had to choose three choices: chemistry and biology, physics and history. I didn't even know which one to choose. I was just a kid that just talks about playing video games or just wasting time. I wasn't ready for this decision, but nobody could help me. So after approximately 48 hours, I made this decision. I talked about it every night, I didn't sleep, so I made the decision, and I chose chemistry.

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Honestly, yeah, I had this type of situation when you had difficult decisions and you got to choose, you got to make decisions and I’ve got a lot of these kind of difficult decisions and most of them I made on my own so I can perfectly say that now I I can be myself and I had one decision difficult decision that would completely changed my whole life. I mean really whole life. And I got to choose, I got to make decisions fast circles, my parents and other people put me in kind of embarrassing and the pressure situation it was the choosing the major yeah after ninth grade I switched 10th grade and I had to choose three choices chemistry and biology three majors, chemistry and biology, physics and history. I didn’t even know which one I got to choose. I was just a kid that just that talks about playing video games or just wasting time I wasn’t I wasn’t really to this decision but nobody could help me so after I approximately after 48 hours I made this decision I talked about this about it every night I didn’t sleep so I made decision and I choose I was choosing the chemistry

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