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Jess's Amazing IELTS Journey: From Struggles to Success in Australia
Hello, IELTS students! Today, we're excited to share an incredible story that will inspire you to chase your dreams. Meet Jess from Indonesia, who overcame her IELTS challenges and is now heading to Australia for her studies!
Jess's IELTS Goals
Jess needed high IELTS scores to qualify for a scholarship to study in Australia. Like many of you, she found writing and speaking the trickiest parts of the test. She struggled to improve on her own and felt confused by all the tips and tricks she found online.
The Turning Point
Everything changed when Jess discovered the IELTS Podcast course and tools. Here's what helped her the most:
The AI essay checker gave her detailed feedback on her writing
The speaking exam simulator boosted her confidence
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one hello there Al podcast listeners in
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this tutorial we have got a very special
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guest called Jess from
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Indonesia and she's going to tell us
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about her amazing journey how she got
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exceptionally high scores and her plans
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now that she has done with IELTS and
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moving forward so welcome to the
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tutorial uh Jess how are we doing today
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and could you just tell us a bit about
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yourself and why you were taking the is
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please of course so my name is Jess I'm
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from Indonesia and I'm taking the ISS
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because I need a high score to qualify
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for a scholarship to study abroad it has
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been a dream of mine to continue my
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education
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overes and to make that happen I had to
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meet the language requirements set by
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the scholarship program well so far I
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would say uh I struggle a lot with
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writing and speaking Yeah it has yeah
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they have been the trickiest parts for
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me I guess and I just knew that I focus
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on improving those areas yeah yeah yeah
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Jess you're not alone there I think most
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of the students struggle with the
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writing and speaking and I think the
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main reason is because with the
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listening and reading it's usually a
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question of doing mock tests and you can
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work on that
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relentlessly um on your own but up until
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recently it was hard to work
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relentlessly on the writing and the
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speaking on your own which I'll speak to
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more about that point I'll speak more
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about that point in a minute the Jess H
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where was your scholarship where did you
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want to go
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to well I I wanted to study in Australia
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Australia wow what do you to Australia
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why
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Australia well the main reason because I
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just love Australia
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yeah Karo
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Me Kangaroo
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meet
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yeah
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really okay yeah but Australia is a
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beautiful country I can totally
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understand why you were attracted to go
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there okay so you said you were having
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issues with the writing and the speaking
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and um yeah what were the what kind of
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issues were you facing with the right
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oh well I think because I was practicing
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alone so I couldn't really get that like
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the real feedback so I just couldn't
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tell where I wrong you know and uh
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practicing using those online
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resources they're it's hard to find the
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most reliable ones out there so I was a
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little bit
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confused yeah where what because there
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are a lot of like trips tips and tricks
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out there so yeah I think it was one of
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the hardest things yeah what did you
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feel with the tips and tricks did you
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feel they were valuable or time
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consuming or impractical or practical
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what's your opinion about those tips and
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uh tricks that you
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found I think they were time consuming
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because I had to spend a lot of time
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reading all of them but then at the end
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I was just very confused on
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what you know like the direction where I
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was going I was like yeah very confused
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yeah just because there are a lot of
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there yeah absolutely I find that
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there's Lo loads of information out
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there but I mean from personal
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experience it's usually action rather
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than the information that that makes the
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that makes the difference would you
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agree
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yes so true uhuh so that was with the
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writing was it a similar story with the
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speaking okay sorry I'll just edit that
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bit out because it froze but the last
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question was um okay was it the same for
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the speaking well for the speaking I
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think I needed real feedback the most
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and it was hard when you study alone and
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um you don't have somebody to talk to or
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you don't have a tutor or like somebody
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that that can review your speaking it
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was very confusing like I just didn't
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know what I did wrong you know
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yeah so I just kept of course I kept
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like um speaking by myself you know
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trying to get used to getting those is
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questions which I can get easily online
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it's just I didn't know uh how my
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performance was gotcha gotcha okay so
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you were struggling you didn't know if
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the mistakes you were making you didn't
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know how your performance was okay and
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was it the same with the
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writing yes PR
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much yeah yeah it's like that lack of
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feedback to move forward and improve is
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that right yeah yeah gotcha gotcha and
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you also scored really well for the
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listening and for the reading could you
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tell us a bit about your preparation for
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those
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areas well I mainly just practiced a lot
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like every single day I would practice
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uh reading and listening section
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so that I could just get used to the
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types of questions in iots I think that
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that is the point of the I and reading
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test I listening and reading test so I
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just kept practicing so you were doing
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just relentlessly doing practice tests
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for reading and listening amazing what
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results did you get for the speaking uh
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for the listening and for the reading uh
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I got eight for both reading and
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listening and for writing and speaking I
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got seven no no no no no no no no no no
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tell us later
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sorry no worries okay so you got seven
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for the writing seven for the speaking
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and eight for the reading and
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listening okay sorry I wanted to tease
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my audience and just draw that out later
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but it's okay no worries no
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problem so before you got those ex
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exceptional results for
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the um speak and for the writing what
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were you doing because I know because we
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were working and you were using our
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online tools but what did you use before
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that it was like tips and tricks and
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information or anything
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else well I I pretty much
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relied on those uh online resources that
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I could get because again I did not take
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any course before whether online or
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offline so I just like look up for some
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information about iots on YouTube or
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just Google it down and I just practiced
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by
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myself
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yeah I see okay all right and then if I
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understand correctly you were practicing
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by yourself you couldn't really feel the
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Improvement it was a bit of an
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information Overlord and then you
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started using the AI essay Checker and
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the AI speaking uh feedback tool and
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doing tests is that correct yes yeah
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okay good and you were using the courses
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as well from my's podcast.com is that
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right yes yes gotcha gotcha Okay and
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like what happened after you started
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using the tools and the CES from Alp
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podcast.com I think it was a game
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changer
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personally
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super after a few sessions I think I
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started to see a difference especially
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in my reading and listening scores I
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noticed that I could finish the reading
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section faster and as for the listening
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it went pretty smooth yeah yeah that's
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amazing yeah and what about sorry carry
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on yeah as for the writing I think I got
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very detailed and specific feedback so
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it helped me to fix my problems like
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with my essay structure you know and
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just the overall flow of my
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essay yeah yeah oh that's super super
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and then for the speaking how so did you
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do lots of mock tests or did you just do
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one a week and then focus on your errors
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what what approach did you take when you
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were using that uh speaking exam
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simulator oh no I do the mock test like
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every single day really I want I wanted
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to get used to getting some random
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questions because before I I I got
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really nervous easily when I got some
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pretty random questions uh or those
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things that I've never experienced
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before so I went to the Sim simulator
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and in the simulator we can choose a lot
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of topics right but I prefer to get
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random questions so I choose that every
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time I practice in the
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simulator and I just got more
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comfortable I guess talking about a wide
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range of topics yes so it really boosted
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my confidence during the test that's
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super that's super wow so you got a
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massive confidence boost and would you
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say that that confidence boost came
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because you're now um like supremely
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prepared there wasn't a topic that could
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get you uh sort of like off balance or
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that you weren't prepared to speak about
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is that right yes that's correct
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beautiful beautiful all right then so
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was there any moment when you started
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doing the uh the tests or the the or
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submitting your writing for feedback was
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there any moment where you realized oh
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this is actually working well for
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me yeah so I got like a very detailed
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feedback like I said like in terms of my
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grammar my essay structure you know I
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struggled a lot with my grammar there
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were like minor mistakes that I kept
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doing every single time so whenever I
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practice uh using the simulator it's
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like I got reminded of I shouldn't do
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the same mistakes over and over again
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and also as for like the uh my idea when
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I write my essay so I finally got to
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know how to structure my essay so it
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could be more coherent like the I want
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it so yeah that's
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that's excellent Jess and just to drill
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down with the speaking so you did a like
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a mock exam and then you would pick out
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or the simulator would pick out your
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errors did you focus on one specific
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error at a time or did you just say okay
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I've got these three errors I'm going to
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focus on all three for the next speaking
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uh simulation exam that I do how did you
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approach
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this I I just focused like one by one I
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couldn't like
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I mean it's generally hard to keep up
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with everything all at once so I try to
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focus one by one and I think the
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mistakes that I did a lot whenever I
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practice is um
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vocabulary like
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really
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yeah yes it's like I just suddenly
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didn't know what to say so I couldn't
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find the right vocabulary for the right
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cont context so struggle a lot with that
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so what I did was that first I prepared
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like an answer I wrote it down on my
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notes and then I try to read it and then
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try to answer it not by reading it so I
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just look at my notes and then I talk
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amazing I tried to remember the
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vocabulary that I just wrote down
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especially the ones that I just
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discovered okay and this was vocabulary
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new vocabulary you discovered how did
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you discover it from the
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simulator oh well the simul the
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simulator gave me questions right and it
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just I just tried to what is it like
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make a sentence that I would usually not
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make and also the the vocabulary too I
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try to look for The Uncommon vocabulary
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that I usually did not use
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I look on like uh translator yeah
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interesting okay that's a useful that's
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a useful tip so now you you took the
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test and you got your band seven in the
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writing which is amazing Well Done Band
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seven in the speaking is that right yes
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yeah and eights in the listening and the
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reading that is amazing so um what would
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you say to somebody who might be
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thinking about joining um I podcast
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program oh my goodness I think just
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don't hesitate go for
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it
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because the chorus made a huge
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difference for me especially the test
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simulator it was incredibly useful and
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you know the detailed feedback I
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received on my writing and also my
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speaking it really helped me improve in
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areas I struggled before like I said and
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I think you don't need a private tutor
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because the course just gives you
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everything you need from structure
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practice yeah and it gave me the
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confidence that I needed to
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succeed the score that I needed so I'm
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overall very thrilled and happy about my
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results fantastic fantastic Well Done
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You Well Done wow and are you excited
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about
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Australia yes I just got the Loa yeah so
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I was really happy wow that's super you
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just got the what
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sorry the letter of acceptance oh go
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from the to go to yeah yeah which city
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are you going to uh Queensland
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University of
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Technology right gotcha that's in Sydney
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is that right yeah no it's in Queensland
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Brisbane oh sorry Brisbane yeah getting
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mixed up it's New South Wales isn't
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it Sydney yeah you're right amazing well
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well done Jess that was um absolutely
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amazing uh story there and well done you
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for getting to Australia that's
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fantastic and thanks for joining us to
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inspire all the other students um
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anything else that you'd like to mention
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before we wrap this up oh thanks thank
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you so much for having me I'm just happy
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to that I got to share my story and my
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experience uh using the I podcast
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simulator
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yeah that's amazing well thank you very
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much Jess wishing you super day and just
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for all the uh listeners um yeah if you
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go to ieltspodcast.com you'll find links
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there to join our course to join the
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Aisa feedback groups we've got to join
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the speaking simulator you get a ton of
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value there's a free tier and it's just
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a very straightforward practical way to
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move move forward and improve your
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scores so that's at ieltspodcast.com
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so let's wrap it up thank you very much
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Jess uh wishing you a beautiful day and
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all the best um in Australia thank you
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very much yeah thank you very much
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