Band 6: Describe a long-term goal you would like to achieve. You should say: What the goal is? How long have you had this goal? How you would achieve it? And explain why you set this goal. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Setting long-term goals is essential for personal growth and career development. I have a specific goal that I've been nurturing for quite some time, which is both challenging and exciting. My long-term goal is to become a software engineer, specifically working for tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others. This ambition sparked when I was in ninth grade. I realized I wanted to pursue a career in software engineering so I could earn a good income and help my family. Following this realization, I enrolled in college and majored in computer science and technology. I learned various programming languages, including C, C++, Python, and database management. To further enhance my skills, I participated in weekly or monthly programming competitions on online platforms like Codeforces, HackerRank, and LeetCode. Now, as I'm nearing the completion of my bachelor's degree, I'm planning to specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning to increase my chances of landing my dream job. Ultimately, I set this goal to lead a fulfilling life and provide a comfortable future for my parents. It's about achieving financial stability and giving back to those who have supported me.

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Well, setting long term goal is uh, essential for personal growth and career. I have a specific goal that I have been nurturing for quite some time which is both challenging and exciting. My long term goal is become a uh, software engineer. Tech giants, companies like Google, Microsoft, meta, uh etceca. When I was in class nine or uh. I realized that I wanted to be a uh. That time I realized that uh. I wanted to be uh a software engineer so that I can earn more money to my uh, to help my familyies. After that I went to college and my major was computer science and technologies. I learned some programming language such as uh. There are I learned uh some book programming language such as C, C, Python, uh database, etc. Uh, every week I every uh week or uh. Every month I participated in uh programming contert by on online charge like uh uh good forces and hacker r lead code RSA. Now I’m going to pass my bachelor degree, uh, and I wrote my match major, uh. I want to set my match major an uh artificial intelligent or aml so that I can uh, I can accept my dream job. And uh. I actually set this goal for leadiving a good life and giving my parents place on likelihood. So.

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