Band 5: Describe a piece of good news you heard from others. You should say: what it was when you heard it how you heard it and explain why it was good news (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I'd like to talk about one encouraging piece of news that I received from others. It was very important news because it was about my achievement. This news was about my IELTS score. I found out about this news on my phone when I was scrolling through social media. It was very important for me because it was a significant achievement for my future and my other decisions. I worked hard to achieve this goal, and it was very complex and challenging to reach this score. My achievement was remarkable and difficult to attain. Nobody else could achieve this score, but I did. It was very encouraging news for me, and when I heard about it, I was shocked. After hearing this news, I felt very happy and surprised. I wanted to do everything I had always wanted to do. For example, I felt like I could fly. It was very shocking news, a pivotal moment in my life.

Actual audio transcript (What native speakers are likely to hear):

I’d like to talk about one encouraging new that I heard that I received from others. It was very important news because it was about my achievement. And my achievement and this new was about my I’ll score. I informed about this new on my phone from my phone when I was scrolling the social media. And it was very important for me because it was good achievement for my future for my other decisions. And I tried a lot to achieve this goal and it was very complex, very challenging to achieve this score. My achievement was very good, very unusual, very complexly to achieve this score. Because nobody can achieve this score but I could achieve this goal. And it was very encouraging new for myself and why when I heard about this new I was very shocked. And after hearing this new I was very happy, very surprised. I wanted to do everything that I wanted to do. For example, fly, fly without flies. Yeah, it was very very shocking news, very shocking news for my life, in my life.

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Band 5+: Describe a piece of good news you heard from others. You should say: what it was when you heard it how you heard it and explain why it was good news

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