IELTS test ….. Karmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s not that I do not endorse the need for proper English; it’s just that it is so so so damn frustrating.
Now I require a 7 in each band of Ielts for reasons that will not be said, actually I require an 8 but I will let that be for now. Now mind you that this is out of 9. The maximum you can get is 9.
An IELTS test consists of 4 parts, speaking, reading, listening and writing. I need to get a 7 in each of them.
 
I do not mind speaking reading and writing. What bugs me the most is the listening part?
I am essentially in a room with 50 plus people listing to a stupid stupid conversation between some random people and I have to hear them care fully
IELTS Listening Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wHUrE6JCBUo#t=156s
it is at this point I want to put my head inside the speaker and grab hold of the Andersons neck and break it into two.
Is it not bad enough that these people do not think my masters in engineering degree is not a good threshold for English, that I am wasting one of my hard-earned weekends into proving my competence in English and on top of that paying an entire days salary for the same and they actually want to push me to the edge by making me listen to a conversation of someone looking for a house!!! This is an insult to my intelligence (slightly above average than a chimp) ….it is at these moments I feel my entire Engineering in its entirety was futile. I should have been studying for these English exams
Speaking listening writing have not been a trouble for me ever…I get a 7 and 8 in each of them. What holds me back is my illegible handwriting or disgraphia. “Mute man language” or a “chicken scratching the earth to peck insects” are the adjectives used to describe my handwriting. As I was in engineering this never came in my way, we had mostly equations and numerical, it was never really of much trouble or complain.  More over it did help me with some mistakes I made in the exam.
What is that, is it a” +” (plus) or an” x” (multiplication sign), the benefit of the doubt went to me. Yiyee!!!
Doctors and Engineers have bad handwriting. We put a lot of effort into messing up our handwriting. It’s a profession thing.
 Just because I do not get a 7 in writing I have to take the whole damn exam again and again and again.
My friend aptly put it, this is Karma. You just have to do it, over and over and over until you get the result. Think of climbing the stairs of the holy temple of Vaishno Devi (14 Kms of stairs) you just climb and climb and climb (it just keeps on coming!!!!) until you reach the temple.
 
I don’t mind the money I spend on it, I do mind the time I waste ( I could be finding the cure to cancer or eradicating world hunger, not that I would but I could) But what I really really hate is the insult to the intelligence I have to endure and listen to Mr Anderson house hunting…….!!!!!!
May be they should introduce a system where one can give the exam for a specific section instead of doing the whole thing. Someone listening???

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