Band 6: A Challenging Thing You Did Describe a challenging thing you have done. You should say: when you did it why you did it how you handled this challenge and explain why you thought it was challenging. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Let me describe a challenging thing that I've done. I did it maybe five years ago. This challenge was passing my exams, and I did it because I needed to attend university. I was learning a lot of information for the exams. I had different options. When I wanted to pass this exam, I aimed to pass history and English the first time, but I ended up passing math and English. I realized that I handled this challenge very poorly because now I'm studying here. I think it was challenging for me because you need to have a lot of spare time to prepare for the exams. I was very nervous about the results because these exams influence my future life. This was challenging, but I did it. That's all I wanted to say.

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Let me describe a challenging thing that I’ve done. So I’ve done it maybe five years ago. This thing is passing my exams and I did it because I needed to attend to the university. So I was learning a lot of information about exams. I have different options. Like when I wanted to pass this exam, I wanted to pass for the first time history and English. But then I passed math and English. So I’ve seen that I handled this challenge very bad because now I’m studying here. I think it was challenging for me because you need to have a lot of spare time to prepare to the exams. And I was very nervous because of the results of exam because this exam’s influence to my future life. And now this was challenging, But I did it. That’s all I wanted to say.

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