Band 6: Describe a time when you had to solve a problem (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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So at that time, I remembered that my friends and I joined a competition. It's an online competition. We met to take the test in the Google form and opened the camera while we joined the Zoom meetings. The rules of this competition were that we needed to have our cameras on, and we could not have anyone walking behind us while we were taking the test. The location we chose was my school building. However, we didn't know that there were some activities happening there, and a lot of people were walking behind us while we took the test. I was very anxious and nervous that we were going to fail the test because we didn't follow the rules. My friend and I tried to solve the problem by calling the officials, the staff, to let them know that we were unaware that there would be people walking around us. They said it was fine. So, that's the story.

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So at that time I remembered that me and my friends joined a competition. It’s an all-life competition. And yeah, we meet to do the taste in the Google form and open the camera that we joined in the Zoom meetings. So the rules of this competition is that we need to open the camera and you cannot have somebody walking behind you when you are doing the taste. And the location that we took place is in my school at the school building. And then we didn’t know that. We didn’t know that. They have some activities there and a lot of people just walking behind us when we did the taste. So I was very anxious and nervous that we were going to fail the taste because we didn’t do as the rules said. So me and my friend tried to solve the problem by calling their officials, the staff, that we didn’t know that at our place they were going to have someone walking around us. So yeah, we didn’t know it before and staff said that it’s fine. So yeah, that’s the one.

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