IELTS this Saturday, again.

[FilipinaDiver]

Hello all! So I did my exam last Saturday and oh boy I thought I was not in the UK! 70% are Arabs and the rest are Asians (mostly Chinese). I felt more confident about the test compared to the previous times I have taken it. The most hated part, which is the written exam was a bit odd as it involved a quotation from John Wayne and if I remember it correctly, an examinee should never use a quotation/saying in his/her essay.

I also found the reading part so gender-biased with regards to it's topics which it would be easier for a man to grasp, topics like aeronautics, marine wildlife reservation (3 out 3 topics are sort of more technical). A man would struggle if the IELTS could give a long reading passage that deals with a more womanly topic like cloth-weaving. No wonder that why they ask for the gender of the examinees in the reading part, we're all guinea pigs to British Council (that's my theory).

[Michael Parnham]

Hello all! So I did my exam last Saturday and oh boy I thought I was not in the UK! 70% are Arabs and the rest are Asians (mostly Chinese). I felt more confident about the test compared to the previous times I have taken it. The most hated part, which is the written exam was a bit odd as it involved a quotation from John Wayne and if I remember it correctly, an examinee should never use a quotation/saying in his/her essay. I also found the reading part so gender-biased with regards to it's topics which it would be easier for a man to grasp, topics like aeronautics, marine wildlife reservation (3 out 3 topics are sort of more technical). A man would struggle if the ielts could give a long reading passage that deals with a more womanly topic like cloth-weaving. No wonder that why they ask for the gender of the examinees in the reading part, we're all guinea pigs to British Council (that's my theory).

Good luck with your result, hope it's ok!

[Arthur Little]

Hello all! So I did my exam last Saturday and oh boy I thought I was not in the UK! I felt more confident about the test compared to the previous times I have taken it.

Looks hopeful, ... 3rd time lucky!