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Band 4+: Describe a time you had to make a difficult ethical decision. You should say: - What the situation was - What the possible options were - Who was affected by your choice And explain why you consider it a difficult ethical decision.

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I am going to talk about a difficult decision in my life. The situation was participating in a competition, especially in chess. I had not had this experience before because I had never played chess, and therefore the situation was difficult for me. I decided to take part in the competition because it was an international chess competition. I decided to play, and it was difficult because, as I said, I was not able to play chess due to my lack of experience.

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I am going to talk about difficult decision in my long life. The situation was taking part in competition, especially in chess. and I had not had this experience before because I didn’t play chess before and therefore the situation was difficult for me And I decided to take part in competition. Because it was international chess competition. and I decided to play playing and it was difficult because as I said I didn’t… I was not able to play chess Because, as I said, I didn’t had the experience.

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