 Okay, so I'm going to introduce you to a student that one of the students that I'm most proud of and he did an amazing job with his IELTS test. And now he's working as a doctor in London and I asked him to come on just to give you guys a little bit of extra motivation and he's also going to give you some tips on how he got the score that he needed. So I'll just welcome you doctor Idris can you tell me just a little bit of background information about you first. My name is Idris Elmi. I'm from Somaliland. I actually moved to the UK 10 months ago and I just live here with my wife. And what job are you doing there in the UK? In the UK back home I was a doctor so when I moved to the UK I wanted to start my career as a doctor. But one of the prerequisites is to pass IELTS exam and unless you pass IELTS exam nobody general medical council will not allow you to sit for the other medical exams to assess you whether you are a doctor or not. So I found it difficult to get into pass IELTS exam and the first place. So now I'm already moved to my life so I'm working on the other parts of medical exams which is tremendously easier compared to IELTS exam. Really? I wouldn't have thought that IELTS exam was more difficult than medical exams but that's interesting. So what did you really struggle with when it came to IELTS? Was there a particular skill that you struggled with or was it just everything? What did you really need help with? To be honest IELTS exam is a specific English test. It's a standardized test so they designed a special way that's different from other English exams. So in my first attempt I was trying to get experience on how it feels like the IELTS test so I paid the money and I realized that my writing was way below the standard because of the requirements they asked. For example in Task 1 I'm not used to writing about graphs so that was not part of my curriculum in my school. So I found it difficult and in my first attempt I got 6 and despite working harder and harder in my second attempt I got 5.5. So that was really the hardest part in my IELTS exam. And why do you think just hard work itself didn't help you improve? Why do you think that you worked really hard and you still got around the same score? What do you think was the problem? The problem was in my first attempt I was thinking like why don't you try your luck because my English background was taught in English in high school but we didn't communicate in English so English was my third language. So I just assumed that if I try my luck I might pass the exam so I paid the money. And I didn't realize that IELTS exam needs specific structures. There are thousands of structures, there are thousands of right structures and thousands also wrong structures. So I practiced a lot using a lot of free websites. I just googled IELTS writing and I got thousands of different advices. So I computed myself, I tried one of these advices in the first attempt and then I failed, I tried the second attempt and that also made my grades even worse. So I think because of the way I structured. It's one of the biggest problems out there that there's just so much conflicting information and some of it is correct, some of it's just not. But even if you're looking at five or six different websites all giving you the correct information that's all confusing because it's all different. So you've identified a really common problem there. So what did you do to get your writing up to the score that was required to be a doctor here in the UK? I have to say it was a good given gift to see your website in Facebook. And to be honest I've seen a lot of students recommending me your website because your website is just free. And then they said why don't you try there and I've seen a lot of people giving positive comments and that's when I decided to come into your course. And actually it was really helpful because IELTS lessons are really boring. But the way you structured your tutorials are very interesting. So that is really the difference because you need motivation. You need the desire to learn more because while you have something which is boring and you cannot continue learning. So I love the way you structured your videos and they helped me because they teach me step by step how to write introduction, how to paraphrase, how to plan ahead. Which is really the most difficult one in my first time because I have lost a lot of time writing. I didn't even plan because I didn't know planning was part of writing. So that really helped me because it gave me the compass which was telling me which direction I'm going to. Excellent. That's a really nice analogy for the plan. I usually say it's like having Google Maps that shows you exactly where to go and what to do. So if you were to give me some or give other students who are struggling with writing in particular, if you were to give them some advice, some free advice, what would you say to them? So we've already talked about planning a little bit. Anything else that you would say to students? I would tell them because I know as a doctor you don't have much time to lose preparation of eyelet exam which is not your area that you're going to work. But it's really one of the prerequisites that you have to fulfill. One advice I would give is really the advice I got from you which is like perfect practice makes perfect because I used to think like practice makes perfect. But that was wrong because I practiced it a lot of resources which were really, really bad and that showed in my result because I got from 6 to 5.5. So I would definitely tell them to not rely on any website that says Cambridge-Based Books because they have to follow the rules of the exam. And I would recommend them to come to ILS Advantage to see because it doesn't cost anything because it's a free website in the first place and nobody forces them to pay anything. I would definitely recommend them to visit ILS Advantage.com because that's really very handy for anyone who wants to pass the ILS exam. Yeah, that's a really important point because there's a lot of excellent information out there. So especially when it comes to practice tests, there's a lot of fake practice tests and things that don't really work. So a really good tip as you just said would be only use official practice materials. So you'll get those on Cambridge English website, IDP website, British Council website, ILS.org. There's a huge number of free tests there that people can use and they're real tests because imagine if you were doing the driving test but when you were learning they just told you to do it on a motorbike or in a truck or something like that. It's not reflective of what you're going to face in the real test. So just what are your plans for the future then and what are you going to be able to do with the ILS test? Yeah, ILS test really has transformed my life because now I can start planning other stuff like other medical exams and then start working in London and my plan is just to be part of NHS and National Health System of the UK which needs a lot of health professionals and actually I'm so happy and whenever I see a lot of, the other good thing about ILS advantage is that when I got into the Facebook group that you created which is really a private one, I've met there a lot of doctors who not only helped me, the discussions of ILS but also other medical questions we have and other requirements of the medical exams. So really it's a group that you can find your profession. If you are a nurse there are a lot of nurses, there are a lot of engineers. So it's really amazing. So I'm so happy that I'm moving on my life and my career. We're glad to have you as a doctor here in the UK. We need a lot more people I think after a Brexit so it's good to have one more good person here. So thank you very much for sharing your story with everybody and good luck in your future and if you need anything you have my email address just let me know. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much.