Band 7: Describe a time you overcame a significant challenge. You should say: - What the challenge was - What steps you took to overcome it - Who helped you, if anyone And explain what you learned from the experience. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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So it was about five years ago when I learned how to program or was learning how to write code. The way I overcame it was by reading through a lot of documentation and getting my hands dirty by writing a lot of code. Honestly, I did not have anyone to talk to about it. However, as someone who had a lot of free time, I watched a lot of tutorials and implemented everything without help from anybody. At that time, there was no AI, so I could truly learn everything by my own efforts. From my experience, I learned a lot of things, such as that as long as I have free time, I can do whatever I want. As long as I have the motivation to do something, I can achieve it. For me, this was probably the biggest challenge of my entire life.

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So it was about 5 years ago when I learned how to program or learning how to write a coding. The way I overcome it is by reading through a lot of documentation and getting my hands dirty by writing a lot of coding. Honestly, I do not have someone to talk about it. However, as someone who have a lot of free time, I am watching through a lot of tutorials and implement everything without help from anybody. that time there is no AI so I can truly learn everything by my own hands. From my experience I think I can learn a lot of things such as as long as I have free time I can do whatever I want as long as I have a motivation to do something I can do whatever I want so for me it’s probably my biggest challenge in my entire life

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