Yeah Joe, I was considering to take an open Uni long distance course too. As I have written to another thread, I am considering to take a GSCE A English level just to brush up my english and hopefully would give me more confidence in speaking the language. There are a lot of choices, the only thing is to study carefully which courses would turn out more usefull in the future. I have read about the ICS courses and that is really a helpful site for those who wants to study staying at home and while you work. Taking the Plab tests is not really that expensive if that will allow your wife to practice her profession as a Doc. I am going to ask for more information about the course that I am interested to do, I am not sure if taking IELTS would be really helpful, it is just a test to determine one's knowledge of english language. I did some online test to determine my english knowledge and in one test I got High Advance Proficiency result and the other one I got Advance Intermediate I don't know what is the difference though lolOriginally Posted by joebloggs
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my wife studied for the IELTS at home , i downloaded a few books and audio tapes/cds off the net, and as i work for a company that repairs printers, i printed them out for her.
but the first time she took the IELTS test, she got an average of 6.5, so she revised some more and took it again.. second time she got the 7 she needed
I don't know if you know what Plab tests are ? they are medical exams for non uk and non euro docs to take, allowing them to work in the uk as a doc, if you did know sorry, plab1 test is £150 i think, plab2 is £450, and both have to be taken in london
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but my wifes english was really good to start with, why don't you start a open university course, learn from home in your own time, even while you workI should ask our Forum Teacher Alan!!!
