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发表于 2011-11-20 18:14:34
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来自: INNA
Hi Dr Zhang,
I agree with you to a large extent. Indeed, one should not sit IELTS tests over and over again (without working hard on improving English), especially when their English is still not good enough to achieve scores that they desire.
However, in my view, if they have already achieved IELTS scores which are quite close to their goals, they could consider sitting IELTS tests a bit more frequently. The reasons could be twofold. Firstly, I don't think IELTS is absolutely objective by which I mean IELTS may become a poker machine in certain circumstances. For example, IELTS examiners of Speaking and Writing parts may have different tastes and slightly different standards of both parts, which can then result in different scores on the same work of one candidate. Secondly, it is unlikely that one candidate would achieve the same results in several tests even taking all of them within a very short period. Actually, it is common to see quite different scores in two consecutive IETLS tests (perhaps only one week gap between the two tests) of the same candidate. Take myself as an example. I have experienced all the following cases:
i) I got 7 in writing and 6.5 in speaking in one test and shortly I got 6.5 in writing and 7 in speaking (3rd and 4th tests).
ii) I got 6.5 in writing and 7 in speaking in one test, shortly I got 7 in writing and 6.5 in speaking and before long I got 6.5 in writing and 7 in speaking in one test again (5th, 6th and 7th tests).
iii) In the Listening tests, I got 7, 9, 7 in three consecutive IELTS tests.
iv) In the Reading tests, I got 8.5, 7, 6.5, 8.5 in four consecutive IELTS tests.
As a result, I don't think IELTS is absolutely far away from being a lottery, especially when one can get quite close to their goals in their IELTS tests.
Nevertheless, your advice is indeed helpful for IELTS candidates who only achieve poor results. Because those results indicate that they still have a long way to go to achieve their goals.
By the way, I don't think '' is a formal expression. From my point of view, a more formal expression would be ''. (If I make any mistakes about this, please accept my apology.)
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