AndyR

Yeah fingers crossed! Will be a long week. Just hope they are here by Friday / Saturday else I won't know will early October when I get back from the states

clarinsred

I have actually received my IELTS result through the post today!!!!! (Remember, I sat it with you first time round Andy?) It has only taken just short of 10 weeks! It’s a good job I was impatient, and went to the test centre at the end of July!
And these people are testing us?
Good luck this week with your results, I am confident you will be fine!

dan23

This test sounds like a right nightmare for native english speakers, just hope I don't have to do it.

AndyR

OMG I remember you taking it yes and that horrendous its taken this long to come through!

I know what you mean, the people running the IELTS centre in B'ham were a joke. The main person was a Chinese lady who was very difficult to understand, the bloke running the exam was French again with a very broad French accent, and then the lady doing speaking tests was Indian but thankfully spoke very good English.

Fingers crossed though, I need to pass this

lucierainbow

Cheers for advice about baby pics. Went to the post office yesterday. So thats all sorted. The pics they took of me were awful so i didn't want to go again (cos i needed a couple more...vain i know but when you've had a baby vanity is a necessity). little babies look gorgeous no matter what so i bit the bullet. Turned out perfectly within the rules. He did have some food in his hair but what baby doesn't.

Kryptonix

Any news Andy?.. if not have a good holiday..

AndyR

Nope, I tried checking online but no joy. Have emailed them as well but no response today so looks like I have to wait another week

Malikkhi

Chill Andy.......u will be fine with the result. I gonna get my result by tomorrow, need to collect the TRF in person.......lets seeeeeeeeeeee
Cheers
Malik

jaystar

Pants! Oh got 8.5, 8.5. 9 and 6.5 in, you guessed it - reading. So now off to try and rebook him on another asap. Half a mark - how frustrating!

When you eventually get yours AndyR, hope it's okay.

Janexxx

Malikkhi

Man i would suggest a recheck for u............there are chances for u

Cheers
Malik

newjersey

Reading can not be appealed.
NJ

Malikkhi

ahan then which parts can be appealed?

Regards
Malik

newjersey

Writing part can be appealed because marks are deducted for bad structure, word count even if your handwriting is bad, paragraphing, etc. But since it is graded by at least two people (third if the first two gave different marks) the chance that it will be changed is not that great. Having said that - I read stories about successful appeals where score was raised by 0.5 mark.

Speaking may also be appealed - that also being subjective. Reading and Listening are objective tests and for that reason appeal will have no chance.

ozbaz

Got my results back from Dublin yesterday

9.0 Writing
9.0 Speaking
8.5 Listening
7.00 Reading

Relieved is not the word....but I believe the IELTS folk are setting the bar too high on the Reading section. I've just shaded it in this area and I'm a native speaker. The toughest part is the True/False/Not Given section...I felt this was my weakest area before the exam and on the day I feel this is where I lost most marks. Come on, if native speakers are having difficulties here then what chance the rest. Get wise IELTS and stop ripping people off...more failures, more money in the coffers from resits, cynical b******s.

Mr Ozbaz.

Malikkhi

Thanx dude for clarification. One of my friend actually get 5.5 in speaking(need atleast 6) and in other parts he scored 7, so i think he may go for recheck for speaking since there are chances for increase in speaking. Moreover in his first attempt he got 7 in speaking
What u say?
Cheers
Malik