Band 5: describe something that was broken in your home and then repaired (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I would like to talk about an experience when I broke my laptop keyboard and then had to fix it. It happened last year when my university project deadline was approaching. I had two days on my hands to submit my final project for one of my university courses. It was actually the embedded systems course, where I had to run many simulations and submit it in two days. This incident occurred at night, around 10 PM. I was simulating another project to compare my results. I needed to determine if it was better or not. I was even in contact with my university professor. Then, while I was typing the results in MS Word, I suddenly broke one of the keys on my keyboard. After that, I was quite confused about what I was going to do. With only two days left, I had to submit my final project online. I had no computer or laptop, and I felt really confused and scared at that moment. I talked about this situation with a couple of friends, but they couldn't help me because they also had to submit their projects at the same time. After that, I looked to see if there were any extra keyboards in my home, as my siblings also used a laptop. In the end, I found an extra keyboard in my...

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I would like to talk about an experience when I broke my laptop keyboard and then I had to fix it. It was happened last year when my university project deadline to lock at my door. It’s like I had two days on my hand and I have to submit my final project at one of my university courses. It’s actually the embedded system course where I had to simulate many simulations and I have to submit it in two days. It happened during the night almost like 10 PM. I actually simulated another project to compare my result. Is it better or not? It actually even my university professor. And then when I actually typed it, typing it, typing the results in MS Word, suddenly I broke one of the keyboard, one of the buttons in my keyboard. After that I was quite confused like what I actually gonna do. Like it’s about like two days and I had to submit my final project in online. I had no computer or laptop but I had to really get confused at that moment and got scared. I talked about this situation with my couple of friends but they didn’t help me because they actually had to submit the project at the same time. So after that I actually looking for if there are any extra keyboard in my home or not because of my siblings also use a laptop. And the final moment I actually found a extra keyboard in my…

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