Band 6+: Describe a skill you learned from a mistake. You should say: - What the mistake was - How you learned the skill from it - When this happened And explain how this skill has helped you since.

At university, I learned that we should really follow the teacher’s instruction, like point by point, to get a good mark. At first, I always thought that I could use my own strategy, you know, and that I didn’t need to really focus in class and follow the teacher’s instructions and strategies. But then I had a really low mark in the exam. I was really disappointed, but I tried to figure out the problem where it came and I tried to correct it. And then after that, the other semester, I avoided to win the same thing, so I followed during classes and I took notes. When I came home, I practiced, but it was like practicing the teacher’s strategies to get used to them, to use them in the exam and actually understand them more. And after that, I got a higher score. So I learned that, you know, you have really to follow the teacher’s instruction, even though sometimes you feel that what you do is correct, but you have to stick to your teachers first, you teach as a strategy suppose and then you can do what else you want to do.