希望您在近日能满足我这个要求.  yu jian (received on May 26, 2004, He took the ielts test on May, 29 and his resulsts are l5 r6 w6 s6)

Hi, Prof Chen:
    How are you? You might forget who I am, the pulmonary physician in your class last summer. Three weeks ago, as a Chevening scholar I arrived in London. Now I am receiving my clinical/research training in Royal Brompton Hospital, one of the leading hospitals in respiratory medicine in the world.

    The reason I write to you is to share some experience with you about IELTS which might be useful. You know that I did not get four above-7 band scores the first time as requested. At that point, I just wanted to forget about it because I was not that enthusiastic about the program. But since I was interviewed by the professor from Royal College of Physicians (RCP) before I got the test results, I knew and I told them I was not going to make it; they believed that I should have done much better. So they insisted that I take another one in three months time. Unfortunately, this time, I got 7 and 7.5 on reading and listening but two 6s on speaking and writing. I thought my writing is just at the level of 6 but my speaking should not be that bad. But anyway, I wanted to give up. However, the people from RCP didn't, and they suggested me to give another try. Although I was completely fed up with IELTS, instead of sitting in another IELTS test, I wrote a short letter asking for remark of my speaking module. Just out of my expectation, they redid everything, and it turned out that both my speaking and writing were up-lifted to 7, leaving my reading and listening scores unchanged.

    That's my experience. Believe yourself and if anything could happen, it will. Maybe next time you could suggest some of your students try remarking.

    Now I am struggling with the homesickness. Although I am not tired of life, I could not say I like London so much. My clinical training is quite fine and I got a completely different experience from what I saw in China. But I am not so keen to be in clinic as my supervisor expects. I don't feel so comfortable with the dictation which I have never done back home and to be honest, I am not confident with all those brand names of non-respiratory medications. However, my supervisor is very optimistic about it.

With Kind Regards

Chengli (Received on Feb. 3, 2004)

Dear Mr. Chen,
I am one of your students in IELTS training course, the weekend class from Nov.9 to Dec.1. I have just finished the whole training course and I am going to attend the test on Dec.7. I am writing to say a thank you to all the teachers in this course.

I feel I have got rapid progress after this course because of your conscientious work. I am still not able to say I will get the best score in the coming exam, but I do want to say I feel more confident now. Although the intensive training is insufficient for a student who have to work during the daytime , I think I am very lucky to choose your course instead of xxx.

I learned English for many years, but almost returned it all to my teachers after graduating from university. When I made the decision of attending an intensive training before the test, I followed others to xxx and bought a bunch of expensive books, which turned to be a mistake after I listened to you carefully in the class. I browsed their textbooks full of model essays and sentences, finding it useless. Then I bought your books with much surprise------They are really helpful! Not only the revisions for students essays, but there are plenty of instructions on how to study English well. I think that is the truth for each English learner-----forget the model, write in your own words!

Another point I want to mention is our teacher on READING. I am not quite sure about her name because she always speaks too fast. I want to give her my deep respect to her due to her excellent teaching! She teaches in a very clear and distinct way to make the bottom of each question, plus lots of tips and buzzwords. I am applying for G grade test, while she teaches for A grade. However, it does not matter. I enjoyed her lesson so much and gained much help from it.

On the other hand, I am not satisfied with our SPEAKING teacher, an American named Peter. Maybe he utilize the traditional Chinese teaching method, teacher-centered, a lot, so we could not get much time to practice speaking in class. He kept talking the whole morning, occasionally let us say several sentences one after another and give us a little advice. I think it is not enough for students who are to be in the test. What we need is to speak a lot to him or classmates and to be given some useful directions.

Finally, thanks a lot again! If I had another chance to participate in other exams like Tofel or GRE, I would choose your courses once again. For the quiet atmosphere on the campus, for the pure academic approach in the classroom, for the honest and frank teaching attitude of yours!
Best wishes

Yours sincerely,
Liubin (received on 2002-12-05)
amyliubin@sina.com

陈老师：
您好！
我是北语雅思9月强化班的学生，11月9号第一次参加了雅思考试。昨天我收到了成绩单，总分6.5。单项分别是听力7.5、阅读7、写作6、口语6，其中听力比预计的高一些，口语低一些。虽然写作的分数不是很高，但是是我最满意的一项。
感谢北语雅思所有教过我的老师。
祝
工作顺利
您的学生：li jing

Dear Sir:

How are you? I am one of your trainees in IELTS summer class, the "bad" physician who wrote relatively "good" English essays among medical professionals. I took my IELTS test for the Chevening Scholarship on Sep 21. Although it's a pain just to recall what happened on the test day, I do think it's my obligation just to give the feedback to you.

Before I went to bed on the very night before the test, I found my ID card was not in my purse as it always was and realized that it was in the pocket of my white gown because I had it photocopied for the renewal of our medical license in the library one day before. Then I was driven all the way to the 
hospital and took it back. When I arrived home, it was 12:00 pm and I couldn't fall asleep any more and ended up in taking sleeping pills. I was half conscious when I got up the following morning. During the listening module, I was too nervous to pay attention to the instruction about how many questions would be asked in one block, therefore, I missed one page. I almost fainted when I suddenly realized it. And the influence lasted through the reading and writing modules. I was flattered by your compliment on my writing, but this time, I would call it complete chaos. I spent more than 30 minutes on task one, and less than 25 minutes on task two (my watch was five minutes fast). In the remaining five minutes, I could neither identify the most obvious grammar mistakes nor find enough space to put in some details. The only module which I was a bit relaxed was the speaking on the second day, which I treated like a usual chat with a native speaker, using words or sentences which couldn't be simpler as I used in my everyday life.

In the end, I got 7 for listening, 6.5 for reading, 6 for writing ( which is a shame) and 8 in speaking. So I failed to pass the band we were required, which is band 7 for every single module. It's just all right for me because the scholarship is not crucial for me. I took this test partly out of curiosity.

Anyway, there are quite a few lessons I learned from this test (apart from the ID card problem), especially for the writing module. It might be helpful to practise writing two tasks consecutively in one hour instead of dealing with them separately. And there is a big difference between practice and 
exam. Even the most stupid grammar mistakes which seem to be incredible during the practice could be made during the exam. Besides, it's far from enough just to complete the on-class assignment, especially when there is a huge time lag between the training course and the real exam.

Hope this is of use and thank you for your coaching.

Cheers
c.q (received on Oct. 19, 2002)

陈老师：
您好，我是Y. Wang。您还记的我吗，向您咨询雅司考试复议的事情，我的结果已经出来了，很高兴的是我的作文从5分升到了7分，其实我感觉最好的就是作文了，知道了才得5分真的是很不平衡，我在家自己练了很多，把您发的题目全练过了，所以才下定决心去复议，这样我的成绩为:Listening: 7; Reading: 6.5; Writing: 7; Speaking: 6。总成绩为6.5。关键还是要好好感谢您，没有您告诉我这件事情，我或许又要再考一次了！
祝您工作顺利，身体健康！
您的学生 Y. Wang (received on Oct. 19, 2002)

陈老师：您好!
  我是2002年7月14日结课的周末班学生(就是和那个很牛的清华建筑博士一个班的学生)。我参加了7月27日的考试，成绩比我想像的好。平均分7.5，听力7.5，口语7，写作7，阅读9。
   原来想IELTS考试是个水平考试，上你们的班主要也是为了熟悉题型，恢复状态。但课上下来以后，发现还就是您的写作课的第一部分（即TASK 1）长进最快。仔细想一想，也就是这一部分短期突击作用较大。我把您编的那本书有关这一部分的所有题目都写了两遍，实际考的时候大概就用了10到12分钟就完成了。我写作最后得分是7分，大大好于我的预期，在此表示感谢。
  口语王旭老师教学也很有启发，听他第一节课后我放弃了要背一背标准句型的打算，少浪费了很多时间。他也许记得我，我是他课上第一个走上去模拟对话的学员。当时他给我的评分是6，同时说幸运的话会是7，模考的老外也评价“at least six”。最后结果也差不多。在此一并致谢。
  另，我的阅读是9分，不知道是不是能拿这个班的第一。这个班口语有大概是前无古人，后无来者的清华博士，写作有一个可写范文的英专女孩，不知道我的阅读9分能否栽入北语培训班的史册。
(该学员是 Chevening Scholarship 候选人)

陈老师：您好！

我是您2002年3月4日-4月26日的IELST学员，参加了5.11（济南）的考试。总分是5分。除口语4分外，其他年基本在我的预料之中（listening 4.5,reading5.5,writing6.0）。这次考试，我的总分虽然不太理想，但作文同我半年前（2001.11）的成绩（3分）相比，提高最大。所以，我首先要感谢您。Furthermore,我想请您帮我分析一下我的口语成绩。我在考前的2个月准备最多的是口语，在北语请了两个英语本科生作为辅导，将以前考过的题型全部背练了一遍，考试时也十分顺畅，自认为也没有漏出背诵痕迹，不想花了时间和金钱，反而落个如此下场。那天的情形是这样的：
5月11日下午，我是第6个被叫，我前面的一个去了18分钟（一般都是10分多一点），才叫到我。进门后，发现这个考官是个40岁左右的男人，according his pronunciation ,he did not seem like a native speaker, as he pronounced not very clear. but I can catch him.
       before beginning, he was while searching for the information on the paper of the candidate and talking to me ,not raised his head ."you are from jinan?" "no, no, it is jinan street of DONG YING city of Shan dong province, dongying is a oil field city ,it is........”"i was just came from dongying yesterday morning." "yeah?!"  After that, he press the button of the recorder and began his question. at that time i have become very relaxed.
Task one
do you work or study?
tell about your typical work.
do you like music?
what kind of music do you like best?
can you describe an important building ?
Task two
describe a person you admire.
who?
what?
why?
task three
what kind of person are famous in your country?
recently, what kind of person be famous in your country?
..
由于准备比较充分，这些题基本under control.
结束后，这位考官站起来主动同我握手，并再次告诉我，他昨天刚从东营过来，并为我开门，送出门外，到了门外，还问我如何回家，是不是现在就走。我告诉他马上就走，自己开的车。他又问，开的什么车。我说：“it is a German brand，made in shanghai, it is a corporate company.”总之，考完后，我心情十分舒畅，心想，我模考时有两处卡壳，感觉不如现在，还得了5分，可能这次得6分问题不大。谁料竟是4分。极其愤闷。特请您释疑！

 陈老师：
 您好！
 我参加了北语的雅思培训班（3/3--4/24, 2002），并于7月13号在大连参加考试。成绩是听力6.5，阅读5.5，写作6，口语6。总分6。
 应该说属于正常发挥。这次考试听力简单，阅读较难，其余两项我在学习班的成绩就是这样很稳定。由于结束学习我就回校写毕业论文、答辩、参加各种毕业前的活动，所以学习的时间不多，这个成绩不好也不坏，希望在以后的学习中会有更大的进步！在此，我很感谢各位老师给我的帮助与支持！
 不知道，您是否对我还有印象，在一次写作课上我作文得了7分。可惜，考试时没写的这么好！由于时间的原因我就写到这里，如果您有什么疑问就给我email吧！
祝 工作顺利
学生：Liu Yuan
 

陈老师： 您好！
我是第七期业余班（2002, 6.29-7.28）的学员，已参加8月3日雅思G类考试。在考试中发生了一件让我很遗憾的事，现写信告诉您，请您以之诫后人。
 听力考试结束后，我用了不多的时间将答案誊完，还仔细检查了一遍。当考官收完Booklet后，如果此时马上进行阅读考试，那么后面的事便不会发生。偏这时一名男性考生不知因什么原因请求出去，于是一名中国女监考人员去找陪同人员，阅读考试因之耽误了几分钟。在此期间，我无意识地将答题纸翻了过来，拿铅笔描听力答案（也许是习惯动作--打发时间）。外籍考官“呼”地冲了上来，将答题纸翻回去，说听力考试已结束，不允许改答案。我吓了一跳，这才意识到发生了什么事。向她解释是没有用处的。她将我的考号记了下来，我不知道结果会是什么。
希望陈老师提醒后面的考生，一定注意考场规则，无意的犯规很不值得。
     祝好！
     Han Mei