Band 8+: Part 2 Describe an important choice you had to make in your life. You should say • when you had this choice • what you had to choose between • how you felt at the time and explain if you now think you made the right choice.

An important choice that I had to make was when I was in my college life. At that time, I had to take the decision between being a doctor and an engineer. Initially, my parents wanted me to become a doctor. As doctors help people at the ground level, I have seen many doctors helping the rural communities in our country and access to healthcare is not common in a lot of villages. So doctors play a vital role in the overall health of non-urban people. That is why my parents tried to pursue me to become a doctor. I was also pretty much motivated to become a doctor for their persuasion that I would be able to help different patients and I would be able to make a change in their life. Making a better future is one of my life goals and I thought doctor might fit perfectly with that. But I was very bad at biology and in my admission time, I thought that being a doctor has these opportunities. I was very good at it. But even if I became an engineer, I would be able to help people a lot. That is why I had chosen engineering because I had a love for physics. And the underlying passion is very important. Helping people is a good cause. But if you have a passion for the subject, you will be able to help people no matter what. I don’t have a passion for biology. So if I go for being a medical professional, I might not shine there and my impact on the community will be less. Now, I am able to help people through cutting-edge research technology. I am making doctors’ devices more efficient, more robust. I am helping with medical diagnosis by having better medical scanning of images. I am helping with the point of care detection for different diseases like diabetes, leukemia. And I am making a profound impact that I thought never was possible using medicine.