 Hi everyone, Chris here from IELTSAdvantages.com with another success story. So we have Navjot and she's going to share her success with you guys so that you can learn from her. So, Navjot, can you introduce yourself to everyone please? My name is Navjot Kaur and I am working as a lecturer in mathematics since 2012. And I wanted to migrate to Canada on a permanent resident basis. So I needed CLB 9 which is Leasing 8 and Best of 3 7. So I was quite desperate to get this score but this has become only possible because of the AP course. So this is all the information I can tell about myself. So before you joined our course, what were you struggling with? What did you find difficult about the IELTS test? I was finding difficult that I can part because I had appeared three times before this successful attempt. And even though I was thinking that my attempt was perfect and I was thinking that I am able to get at least a 7. But it was not possible even if I thought I have written very well. So first of all it took a long time to make my mind that it is not the fault of IELTS. It is the fault of students because I have listened from a lot of people that they are doing it intentionally and they are not going to give you a 7. So my last attempt was on 10th February and then I had almost given up. So this was the only portion that because I was getting quite higher score in the string reading and a 7 in scheme. So this was the only portion that I was struggling with. What score did you get before and what score in writing did you get after? I scored 6.5 always on 11th November. How many times? Three times you got 6.5? Three times, yes sir. And then after we helped you what score did you get? After we helped you after you joined the course what score did you get in writing? I scored 7.5. Congratulations. Thank you so much. So that's a very common problem for a lot of people. A lot of people are stuck at 6.5 and they need 7 or 7.5 in the writing test. So let's talk about that. Let's talk about the differences between what changed from when you were getting 6.5 to when you got 7.5. What did you do differently? Firstly when I was taking classes from the teachers, I joined three different teachers in a quite big city in my state. They were not telling about the different type of essays. They were saying that we have to answer the question in a similar way. Whether it is a discussion essay or it is an opinion essay. Then we can make an opinion essay a discussion one. This was the biggest mistake I have done in the previous attempts. This time things were more clear because I knew what I had to do in the exam. Everything was crystal clear in front of me because I knew there are five types of essays as you told. There are different approaches to attempt all these questions. So I was quite confident this time that I will certainly get my score in the writing section. Apart from understanding the different types of questions and having a different approach, was there anything else that you think made a big difference in changing your writing from 6.5 to 7.5? Keeping the thing simple. Yes, because I was making everything complicated. I don't think whose fault is this but by default we are thinking that we had to write quite a complicated vocabulary and we had to use a typical type of sentences. That is not the main thing because we had to convey our ideas and our opinion to the examiner or whoever is reading. This is the main thing. I think it can take a long time for everybody to understand that this is the main thing. We cannot use any random words which we have learned from random forces. I think if everybody can understand it but there are a lot of things. I think we have done over 30 videos now with VIP students and every single student has said keep it simple. That is the thing that helped me more than anything. It is a thing that is very difficult to explain to someone. When you fail a test what you think is automatically naturally you think I have to do things in a more complex way or a more complicated way. When you tell a student the opposite of that they find it very difficult to accept it. Especially it is the opposite to what a lot of other teachers are telling them which is use complicated grammar and vocabulary and then you will get the score you need which is not true. If someone like you who imagine you were talking to a group of other students and they were like you they kept getting 6.5. What advice would you give them? First of all I will advise them that making a plan is compulsory in the writing. Because in my previous attempts I was not willing to waste my 8 to 10 minutes on planning. But this time even in practice when I was practicing in my writing and in the exam as well I spent around 8 minutes to plan. And surprisingly in the last 40th minute I completed my writing task because I always attempt my essay first and later in the last 20 minutes. It was amazing to see that it worked quite well because the a couple of minutes spent earlier are worth it because it is very important to plan. It's an investment of time. It's because a lot of people think of it as wasting time. It's like no it's investing the time so that you won't be wasting time when you're writing. So that's excellent advice. Anything else you would say to them? Join the course. Apart from that. I'm putting you on the spot now. I think those three things that you said would make a huge difference to a lot of people. So you know approaching each question individually and having an individual approach to each question. Keeping it simple especially when it comes to you know clearly communicating with the examiner. Clearly answering the question rather than trying to use fancy vocabulary and grammar and planning and time management also. Investing the time to plan out your answer which will lead to a much clearer answer fewer mistakes and you'll get it all done on time. I think sorry for putting you on the spot. I know you're not an iOS teacher. So what will you be able to do now in the future that you've got your scores? I am now eligible for the express entry because I was getting a quite close score in the process and at present I have boosted my score by 60 points which has made a huge difference. And I think I will be able to move to my dream country Canada within six months. Before this exam on 12th of May because I had lost all the hopes and I was still hoping to move to Canada. I had changed my plans and I was thinking to move as a student because I just but that that was quite difficult path for me because it will take around four to five years to get all the things which I can do with this score now. This has made a huge difference in my life and my family. I was talking to a lot of students today and they were saying to me, you know, I don't have enough time to do what you want me to do or I don't have enough money to do what I want you to do. And I was explaining it to them that if you think about it, you're investing this time, you're investing this money, but it's going to save you so much time and save you so much hassle in the future. There are a lot of people who are trying again and again by thinking that luck will get to them soon and they will get a seven suddenly. I know this will not work because I had tried three different approaches in my writing in my previous three attempts and I was not able to get seven. That I thought that there is something wrong with my writing so I need an expert advice so I said it's not the fault of us. I think a lot of people who are failing over and over again. I was speaking to one guy yesterday and we were talking about whether he could join the course and on the call he was saying he was blaming IELTS. He was blaming the examiners, he was blaming everybody and I said listen, you're not welcome on our course. And he said why? I said because you won't accept that it's your fault. It's your fault that you're getting those scores and blaming everybody else is only going to lead to further failure. But it's when you accept that okay, it's my responsibility to get the help that I need and my responsibility to do the work and to improve. Then every single time we see students moving up and getting the scores that they need. But I see students every single day that aren't members of our course that are maybe on our Facebook page or things like that. Just blaming everybody except themselves. Never actually saying maybe I just didn't find the right teacher or didn't find the right approach or didn't work hard enough. And I think accepting that is a big, big, big step. Not just for IELTS but for pretty much anything. If you blame other people for your problems then it doesn't normally lead to success. So thank you very much for sharing that with everybody and I wish you all the best of luck in Canada. You're going to be a mathematics lecturer. Yes sir. Excellent. Excellent. Alright, so thank you very much and I'll see you again soon. Bye bye. Thank you so much. Bye. You're welcome. Bye bye.