Faizah and Her Enchanting Journey

Photo by Karla Hernandez on Unsplash one thing that makes me so astonished in this class is : this class makes me realized that after all this time surprisingly i did not answer the IELTS exam in a proper way. i fail to answer like the way the exam maker expects me to do.   but this is a common mistake for the IELTS taker. a particular trap to make sure that someone is deserved certain score of the IELTS result. before we talk that far, please allow me to explain what notorious means. notorious is a term to symbolize a well known someone or something with a bad terminology. a cruel one. like you watch a superhero movie, the boss of the boss of the villain. yup, that character is notorious. an antagonist part of the movie who causes the drawbacks at its best. in IELTS, the notorious questions are on the reading test.  in short : this trap scattered properly in four locations : true/yes false/no not given, multiple choice, matching heading/information, and completing summa...

 Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash thank you for waiting. your patient really matters. usually i write my experience of my IELTS journey with Betari Aisah in the same week as the class held. but, due to my hectic work - related activity makes this post got some delayed. but, i still remember how incredible the experience to crack the speaking test. first, i told you again about the philosophy behind IELTS test. the test is not just a score, it's about a metric to measure how deep your English language acquisition skill. a great framework to help you deliver the idea in your head into an understandable way of communication ; speaking and writing. also encourages you to understanding the English language content appropriately through listening and reading. this speaking topic is the end of foundation class. the next agenda of this private lesson is about how to implement a good strategy in order to gain a higher score than my previous result.  let me tell you a...

Photo by David Iskander on Unsplash after my pain from hell because of period, finally I attend to this class. in the middle of our schedule, this is a whole new skill that i must cracking it : IELTS Writing Task 1. in my opinion, completing IELTS Writing Task 1 is harder than Task 2. because this is about data interpretation. i do not allow to put any other opinion on this task. just pure understanding the visual data shown by chart, graph, multiple chart, map, table, pie bar, or cycle. the shape of a question is a quiet board to predict. here the challenge. i do not transcribe the data. i must "translate" the data into a narrative passage in my answer sheet. for some people, this is really a piece of cake because all of the material already provides. but, for me. this is the difficult one ; i am on intersection to sort which is the my interpretation and which one is my opinion. my first step is, i must understand what the question trying to instruct. what must i do with th...

  this meeting is very special. starting with encouraging week, because we had to suspend the class due to my menstrual - hell illness. so, I pay the absence to constanly do IELTS reading and listening test for 4 days. i take IELTS Cambridge 14 Module. test 1 for Monday, Tuesday is test 2, the third test is on wednesday, and the last test at Thrusday. the next day (Friday) is a time to attend my IELTS Class. my illness like a blessing in disguise. this break surprisingly gives me a courage to enjoy my Natgeo People channel without reading the Indonesian Subtitle. i can close my eyes and feel the vibration of the dialog.  also, i can enjoy reading my favorite novel in English version. this feeling is so satisfying. the novel and Natgeo People maneuvering my mindset. from make it as my tools to increase my IELTS, to enjoying it and realize IELTS is a foundation for unlocking the cheap yet easy high quality of entertaining content. with my financial situation, it feels so blessed...

  Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash this meeting is dominated with we are figuring out what happen in Cambridge IELTS 16 listening test, why my score has extremely dropped. after I and Betari has been done the same test : we agreed that in the 16 series (and most probably in the 17 series, which is held this year) IELTS examiners committee makes some significance chance in IELTS exam. The difficulties are broadenly spread in all the tests. this not like the previous exam, which had particular part that used to be notorious part of exam participant.  there is no more example in the listening test (which is good because for me, an example in the test was breaking my focus LOL) and the speaker talk slower than before. the accent of the speaker also different and challenging to identify what accent is from. the context also very related to real situation. so, yeah. the IELTS Cambridge 16 is more difficult. Betari suggest me to just focus on IELTS Cambridge 16 practices as my p...

Photo by Mohammad Metri on Unsplash listening is my first love, but Betari shows me it's not that easy. you are what you listen to, is a perfectly right quote to describe coherency between you and your IELTS Listening Test. stay calm and trust your ears. you just have one chance to concentrate and write exactly what you listen to. do not ever think that your memoir can save you for listening tests. once you get delayed, you never find out the right answer. at that time, i lost my motivation. i have been getting a stable listening score during my practice. but one day, it decreases 0.5 points. I still assume that is because I did not get my breakfast before the practice. but it becomes worse when the next day it shows the same score in different listening test (i never repeat my practice with the same test). and Listening Test from Betari came. i got more surprised when the score is dropping 1 point than before. my total decreasing gap from my stable score to Betari test is about 1...

bukan hal baru, saya harus lembur di hari Minggu. biasanya situasi begini saya kombinasikan dengan so called self reward . dimulai dari saya makan paket bento di restoran Jepang kesayangan saya. dilanjutkan dengan ngopi sambil kerja di waralaba kopi terkenal dunia. yang berada tepat di seberang restoran Jepang itu.   but this month is a whole new level. it's more advance . saya nggak bisa plan kapan dan dimana mau kerjakan kerjaan kantor yang deadline nya membuat saya ingin menangis. seperti tadi malam. jam sepuluh malam saya diminta membuat jadwal pelaksanaan lengkap dengan bobotnya. dokumen tersebut harus selesai paling tidak dini hari. karena dokumen akan diupload pukul tujuh pagi. sebagai kompensasi, saya diizinkan berangkat siang ke kantor. it was a crazy project planning , lima jam saya berkutat dengan penjadwalan lima puluh orang tenaga ahli ditemani sinetron ikan terbang yang ceritanya cringe tapi ampuh mengingatkan saya untuk selalu bersandar ke tuhan. mission imposibbl...

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