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which is the language skills and these
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usually a little bit harder to
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improve in order to get to a band
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ideas now this is a frustrating point
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for a lot of students because in the ISS
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exam you are tasked with coming up with
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ideas especially for writing task two
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namely now the issue here is that if you
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come from an education system where
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you've been just memorizing and now you
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have to come up with these ideas then it
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difficult it gets incredibly
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frustrating um and the reason why you're
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ideas is because this is the Western
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form of education and you know we need
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these you need these skills for
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University so it can be incredibly
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frustrating now graph descriptions for a
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language exam this is incredibly
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frustrating but it's also asking you for
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mathematics uh and your basic incredibly
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basic mathematics skills but I recently
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had a student who was studying I think
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it was like International Communication
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and she had to take the I academic and
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she was struggling with graph
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interpretations with pie chats with the
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language fractions the percentages not
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to mention the dynamic chats and she was
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incredibly frustrated she's like this is
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a language exam why is it asking me for
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my mathematics knowledge well to be
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fair you're in most cases you're taking
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the ISS academic to get into University
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and once you're in University then
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you're going to need these it's highly
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likely you're going to possibly
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interpret some graphs in some parts of
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the exam uh some parts of your
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course here is a screenshot this is um a
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typical report that you get afterwards
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it's only a section of the report but
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you can see there you can see the
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vocabulary you can see uh which words
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been repeated it could give you
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suggestions to improve your language so
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you move away from the A1 which is
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around band five 5.5 and it gives you
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higher level vocabul L says a quick way