stepo707:
Seems like no one wrote here on Nov 2nd Ielts or no one has checked his/her result yet?

Alphadoor:

Result is available online..
If you wrote in Lagos..
U can pickup from British council on Thompson avenue , ikoyi..
On monday Tuesday and Friday

majiouk2002:

I sell PTE vouchers for #51.5k

koleefem05:

Did you just say the recordings was played twice? Is that an adjustment by British Council?

BlackMimir:
Quick one guys.
With the risk of derailing the thread a bit, I'd like to know which country you'd choose between AU and CAN if you had the option.
Well, since we all here, I reckon AU is the country of choice.
Question is why AU over CAN?

koleefem05:
Chief Bellong, and other gurus, I greet you all. What are the pros and cons of 186/187 subclass? Not much is said about it here...please shed more light�perhaps I have a wrong perspective. Thanks Bosses.

Abbey1987:
gurus in the house, if an application for a student visa is tagged Finalized on Immi Account, how long will it take them to send the decision to the email? i'm very optimistic that allah will do the best for me? Cc bellong

jayooh:


dear all,is it advisable to take 489 of Riverina in NSW?

Under which occupation and have u been nominated already?

gbomowakimi:


Agriculture.
Wants to seek nomination

jayooh:
Hello Diggy4real, hope you're good? have you been able to submit your papers to Tasmania for nomination?

Desdes:
Good morning house....Pls can anyone here assist in which of d occupations someone with an 8yrs banking experience nominate for (operations and marketing dept)....with a degree in biological Sciences...Married and will also love to relocate with d family all together at once...

Musharraf:


Please can one get hardcopy material for PTE acad.?

Anatano:
Hi All, I have been a regular follower of this thread since I came across it through google. I have learnt quite a lot here from the myriad of questions and answers. I would also like to acknowledge lots of beautiful minds here – belong, mctowel, bnimz, spiroxy, mamajaz, zany to name but a few.
Though am still waiting patiently for my ITA, I thought of sharing my experience with English exams.

I started my journey early this year, and have written 3 IELTS exams. I was able to achieve at least 7 across all bands on the second attempt after which i evaluated my credentials with CPAA. But then I needed more points to stand a chance for ITA under ANZCO 221111, so I did the third IELTS on 9Sep17, but it didn't turn out as expected. I had L=8, R=7.5, W=7, S=7.5 so 20points seemed elusive.

However, before the outcome of my third IELTS i was skimming through previous posts on this thread when I came across the part where @bnimz mentioned getting 90 on all bands in PTE. It inspired me to be frank. At this point i had known about this thread for around a month, but I wasn't following with keen interest. I wish I was, perhaps I would've had the 20points much earlier.
So I did a little research online and finally decided to go for PTE on 19Sep17 as a backup plan, since it proffers a more objective alternative to attaining the 20points from language. As it turned out above, IELTS wasn't good. Though PTE wasn't either, but the result gave me hope. My first PTE on 19Sept17 came out as L=90, R=81, S=78, w=90. You can imagine how heart-rending this result was, just one point to hitting superior points. Infact, at a time I thought Pearson did it on purpose. But then I gave it another try on 27Sep17, score was L=90, R=72, S=70, W=90. Worse than the previous, you’d say, but I learnt an invaluable lesson from this. So, I put in for another one on 03Oct17 and result was L=90, R=89, S=90, W=90. Now I will tell you what I discovered in the speaking.

In my first attempt, I had just a few hesitations or pauses here and there during describe image and retell lecture. And I spoke continuously with some speed all through the test, cause of another candidate’s loud voice behind me. However, on the second attempt there was no hesitation, false start or any other form of error, but then the result was bad. Reason, I was trying to game the system. I spoke slowly in the read aloud, so my pronunciation was better, but then I spoke at a faster pace in other sections. Apparently, the system monitors your pace all through the speaking exam, and any change is taken for speech at an uneven pace which lowers your fluency scores. To achieve a high score in PTE speaking, aside from avoiding hesitations, repetitions, and false starts, you need to speak continuously and maintain the same pace across all the speaking sections. Another thing I did was, for describe image and retell lecture, I included at least a sentence as conclusion.

Do not be carried away by the read aloud speaking section of the PTE exam, you would get about 30secs to prepare, this should tell you something. The preparation time is to familiarize yourself with the text, so when it’s time to start reading, you have to be fast, not rushing through anyway, but then you have to be continuous so you can achieve that “assimilation and deletions appropriate to continuous speech” of PTE that is ascribed to native-like score under the pronunciation rubric. This can be clearly observed when you listen to newscasters on BBC or CNN. You would notice how fast they speak as they read from the teleprompter before them.

As for the retell lecture, my strategy was to listen attentively to the lecture (I did not write anything – my style). Focus was on the lecture. I was writing down keywords in my first and second attempt as advised by several blogs and videos I saw, but when I sat down to understand myself before the third attempt, I realized putting my focus on listening works best for me. After listening, I then spoke with the understanding of the topic. This enhanced my fluency as i was able to relate the talk as though I was telling a friend about a movie I saw.

For describe image, I employed e2language’s style of title, x-axis, a few points from the graph, chart or diagram and conclusion. Please see e2language videos on YouTube for this. Remember, always add a conclusion or implication to your response.

Repeat sentence is quite straight forward. Just try to develop your short term memory. In my opinion, please do not write down the sentence. Just focus on listening and repeat as you heard; same stress patterns and rhythm.

For answer short questions, please look up wenbo.tv, the site has a lot of practice questions. This part requires familiarity with the mode of responding. I guess most people do well in this section because they are probably things you come across every day.

I’ll stop here for now; this is already getting too long.
Here are a few sites that helped me during my preparation:

www.wenbo.tv/Practice-V3/home.html (has lots of practice materials)
www.coursera.org/learn/interview-preparation/lecture/fB5fE/using-phrasing
www.englishlistening.com

Alphadoor:
Hi fam,
I need help with nominating Agricultural scientist from Lautech.
how does one navigate the treacherous water of great VETASESS

cc koleefem05

koleefem05:
Chief, with God all things are possible. Let’s get to it.

Logictinz:
Good day my good people. Please help a brother out I am desperately trying hard to decide the occupation I can apply under, I want to start writing my Career Episode.

Please be aware that I hold HND degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering but my nine(9) years working experience is in Oil and Gas(Completion Segment), where do I fit?

Abeg I need help please.

Thank you.

Peterolums:
So I have been following the platform for a while now. I have done IELTS and waiting to get my results . I am trying to complete registration with EA Australia. I have registered since may with them but it got cancelled since I didn't finish up the registration. Now that I am ready , I am having issues with registration again . its still seeing it as if I am registered. while not responding . I have sent mail to membershipservices but uptil now I haven't gotten any response .

Is there anything else I need to do.
help pls

Cottyekundayo:

Use a new e

Cottyekundayo post=62460452:

Use a new email and register na. Better still out a call through on a business day.

mail and register na. Better still out a call through on a business day.

Alphadoor:
PTE MATERIAL VAULT

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0BxSAhiEs5XzvX3lNSnRxc3NWcU0


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ENJOY

Ndaife:
Hello everyone, please help me out with this.
I am a graduate of Biochemistry, graduated 2012 but has been working as a teacher in a private secondary school since then, recently I went to learn painting and I have completed that and I can say that Am good in it as I have all the necessary skills required of a good painter. On the MLTSSL occupation list, I saw Paint trade worker and will like to nominate it, but my greatest challenge is d years of experience and evidence of payment as required by TRA. Please experienced folks in d house, is it possible for me to apply and get positive outcome of the assessment if I can gt 60 points from other angles and considering my few months work experience?
My details r as follows:
Age = 29 (30 points)
Qualification = B.Sc in Biochemistry IMSU, (10 or 15 points)
English test: ( what if I gt 20 points)
Experience: 0-3 years (0 point)

Please with this, can one apply for the skill assessment and have positive outcome??

go4value:
Denny2017 post=62330051]Hello E family,

I just got a negative outcome from TRA,one of the reasons says: (TRA could not verify your employment with the above employers. You have provided telephone numbers which could not be linked to the business by TRA). Please who has had similar experience? what evidence did you use to proof that the contact is link to the company?

Wow...relax the gurus will attend to you,BTW how many phone numbers did you summit,and what's the position of the company contact you submitted his number to TRA

stepo707:


Ielts messed me up in my reading and writing I wanna try pte and aim 20pts. Pls this links you shared is it for only speaking?
Wanna get materials and Links for reading,listening and writing