Band 5: Describe a challenge you faced that you thought was rather difficult - - - - - You should say: What it was When and where you faced it Why you thought it was a difficult challenge And explain how you felt at the time (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Actually, I really like to talk about one interesting situation or experience. It happened last year, at the end of the year. We had to take our last exam. It was really hard for me because at that time I was really working hard for this exam, and I was preparing for all the subjects except English. English has a lot of grammatical rules and vocabulary. Actually, I didn't have enough time to prepare for English, so I didn't prepare at all. At the end of the year, I took the English exam, but I didn't prepare for it. When I took the English exam, it was really hard for me because I hadn't prepared. I ended up getting a low score on the exam because I didn't know some vocabulary and had a lot of grammatical errors. It was really difficult for me. It actually had a bad impact on my mental health because at that time I was afraid to tell my mom and my family about this experience. I actually passed all my high school subjects except English, and I didn't tell them about it.

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Actually I really like to talk about one interesting situation like experience. Um, it happened last year. Uh, actually um, end of the year, uh, we have ah, we had to take a ah. Last exam. Um, it’s really hard to me because I really that uh, time I was really hard worked uh, working this exam and I I uh, was preparing all exam um, exceped the English. Um, because English English itsam has a lot of grammatical um, grammatic, grammaica and the vocabulary. Actually I don’t, I didn’t have any uh, enough time to prepare the English. Therefore I didn’t prepare it. And end of the year, um uh, end of the year I m. I kept the English a and I take al exam but I didn’t prepare only English. And when I um, take the english exam it’s really hard to me because I didn’t prepare it. Um, actually um, I got low, low score in the exam because I didn’t know some vocabulary and grammatical uh, have I had a lot of grammatical errors and I get a low score. It’s really difficult for me. Uh, it really actually it’s really badly impacting my mental health because that time I uh, was afraid to tell my mom, tell my family to this experience. Uh, actually I got a high school, all the subject except the English and I didn’t tell me my.

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Describe a challenge you faced that you thought was rather difficult – – – – – You should say: What it was When and where you faced it Why you thought it was a difficult challenge And explain how you felt at the time

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