Band 7: Describe a time you helped a stranger. You should say: - Where you were when this happened - What the stranger needed help with - How you helped them And explain how you felt afterwards. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I will say that he is an online stranger. When I posted video content on my TikTok account about how I got the scholarship for my PhD, there were a lot of comments in the comment section. One of them asked me to help him with how to write a personal statement and how to get a scholarship. So, I helped him last year to get the LPDP scholarship in Indonesia. I assisted him through Zoom meetings and online chats about how to answer interview questions, how to write a good essay and proposal, and how to handle questions in the interview section. I felt very happy when I heard he passed several tests, and now he is continuing his studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

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I will say that he is an online stranger. When I post a video content in my TikTok account, it is about how I get the scholarship in my PhD. There are a lot of comments in my comment section and one of them asked me to help him how to write personal statement and how to get the scholarship. So I helped him last year to get scholarship in LPDP scholarship in Indonesia and I helped him in Zoom meeting and online chatting about how to answer the interviewer question and how to write a good essay and a good proposal and how to do some questions in interview section and I feel very happy when I heard he passed several tests and now he continues continuing his studies in UK in Birmingham University.

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