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Band 5+: Describe a time you successfully did something difficult

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Okay. Here, I'd like to talk about a time I successfully did something difficult. So, I want to share an experience from when I passed the ACC exam in 2019. As a student, I was enrolled in Boragan Public School And College in Jordan. After completing my SSC exam, I started preparing for my HSC-related exams, which included class tutorials, half-term, and first-year exams. After completing my HSC, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and our college and hostels were shut down. We were told to go back home and prepare for our exams from there. It was a challenging time, and I felt really bored at home. The days were passing slowly, like a tortoise. But then, our government announced that the HSC examination would be held on July 16, 2020. Many students were shocked because they weren't prepared for the exams, having been stuck at home and not having had the opportunity to learn from their schools and colleges. Our main challenge was to finish the HSC syllabus, which was vast and inconvenient. Despite the difficulties, I managed to overcome them and successfully pass my HSC exam.
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Okay. Here, I’d like to talk about, uh, a time I successfully did something difficult. So first of all, I want to say I’m a student and I passed the ACC exam in 2019. The ACC assessing means is secondary school. So when I passed the SSC exam in Jordan 2019, I got admitted myself at, uh, um, college, which name is Boragan Public School And College. And after that, I was preparing myself for my HSE related exams, uh, which is a class tutorials and, uh, uh, the half term and the 1st year. So after completing my, uh, uh, HSC, which means higher secondary, faster, uh, and, uh, at the time, the whole world will know the whole world will be know that COVID pandemic. So, uh, um, the COVID pandemic was right in our whole world. So our college our colleges and hostels were noticed about that you have to you have to go your own home and start at your at your home and, uh, you should be you should be prepared from your home because the pandemic, uh, is right, you know, our whole work. So at the time, I was, uh, really bored at my homes. So whenever the time is, uh, the time was going, like, uh, tortoise. So, uh, but our government noticed that, uh, your uh, HSC examination will be held on uh, 16 July in 2020, 2022. So, uh, every students are, uh, shocked about the notice because they’re they are not required for the coming exams. And therefore, they’re, uh, they’re stuck at home and they’re, whatever they, they get, they got the they got, um, they got from, uh, during their schools, uh, school is during their college during the college session, but, uh, the the government was when the government was, uh, noticed that that your examination will be held in the 16 July. So, uh, at the time, our our our main problem was to, uh, finishing the HSC syllabus, which is too much which is too much large and, uh, too much to towards the, uh, inconvenient.

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