Band 5: Describe a time you made a mistake and learned something from it. You should say: what mistakes have been made how and when it was made and explain what you learned from it. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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In this world, everyone can make mistakes, and these mistakes can be both significant and minor. Of course, I have made plenty of mistakes that I regret and learned many useful things from them. Now, I would like to talk about a mistake I made a couple of months ago. If I'm not mistaken, it was in March when I made this mistake. My friend, my best friend, came to me with another girl, and this girl asked me to go to the cinema. She said my best friend neither agreed nor did I, and then I let him go. I really regret it because she is like a sister to me. We were really close, and she is my best friend. Since that moment, we have drifted apart, and she has become closer to this guy who came to me. I think failures can lead us to do better next time, and they teach us to improve.

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In this world everyone could make mistakes and also these mistakes may be the inner most one and the smallest one. And also of course I have plenty of mistakes which I regret and learned plenty of useful things from it. And now I would like to talk about the mistake when I made a couple months ago. If I’m not mistaken it was a March when I made these mistakes and it was my friend, my BSC, BSC came to mind with another girl and another girl asked me for go to the cinema and she said my BSC said neither do she agree nor do I and then I let him go and I really regret it because she is really my sister. We were really close and she is my bestie and from this moment we drifted apart with she and she has been closest with this guy who is come to me. And I think the failures can meet us to do better and to do better next time and they are taught us to be better.

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