Hi!..I am so excited to post this thread because I know somehow there would be a lot of concerned people that could more or less share their views on this.
I just wondered if the nurses who left for New Zealand and Australia really were good in speaking, writing and listening in English. I just got frustrated because most of the countries now required an IELTS individual scores of 7. Meaning, 7 in Listening, speaking, writing and reading the English language.
I know a lot of nurses who are now in New Zealand and Australia and even in Ireland who (no personal offense) are not really that good in English. I mean really...I would not say they are much better than me or my other friend, but they took the IELTS a year ago and olaaah...they passed this test and got 7 in each test.
I think some agency or organization should check on this. Coz now, I heard from my firends too that most of the takers are 2nd to 4 times takers already because of the desired score of 7.
Again no offense meant here..but I think some Filipinas can write and speak English correctly with the correct verb, adjective and sentence construction than the Native Aussies, Kiwis, Irelanders etc....
The IELTS they are offering now is getting more difficult than years before. I fairly think, the business of IELTS review centers in the Philippines are increasingly succesful in getting more students to re-take and do the exam again and again because of the band score on each task. :icon_roll
An example is if a nurse got a 7 in speaking ,reading and writing, but got a 6.5 in listening, this does not mean she would be unqualified to practice her nursing in the said countires. Is that fair?
On the next IELTS test, she got to take it again, and got 7 in all except in speaking where she got 6.5. Now this meant she failed again... and need to take it again
To think...there were many factors that could affect her English scores. Personally, the speaking can be subjective as well as the writing task. Filipinos who earn so meagerly, cannot afford to pay 8,690.00 pesos evrytime for this IELTS test.
Can some organization see this??? I hope to see some views from my friends here in our web...
i got an overall band score of 8 but with a 6.5 in speaking, frustrating really considering that my other scores were Listening-8.5, reading 9, writing 7... Too bad there's no country that's lenient enough to consider my scores
Obviously you can understand English very well but in an emergency situation or for a patient, colleague or doctor face to face or taking orders over the phone you do not speak it well enough. On behalf of potential patient in English speaking country , I am glad they are not lenient. I would expect the same strict language requirements for me in you country, as part of my duty of care I would not question this.
Obviously you can understand English very well but in an emergency situation or for a patient, colleague or doctor face to face or taking orders over the phone you do not speak it well enough. On behalf of potential patient in English speaking country , I am glad they are not lenient. I would expect the same strict language requirements for me in you country, as part of my duty of care I would not question this.
It's just frustrating on my part. But I accept it, i just need to enhance it. I just hoped that I did better... :)
I am not a nurse but I saw this website after searching "IELTS 7 Philippines". I had a terrible experience with this IELTS and really just because of this, I was not able to apply for a 176 VISA where my State Sponsorship already expired, it is really disheartening.
Anyways I took the test 4 times, and always have a 6.5 score either in writing or speaking. I passed the speaking once with a score of 7 but not in writing. When I got 7 in speaking, my interviewer was an old lady. I can say that of all my speaking exam it was the worst, yet I got 7. Others would say, you cannot judge IELTS it is a very cunny exam. Well, I am there four times and if I will compare all four interviewers, the old lady is really generous in giving grade. Before, I had a young Filipino and Filipina interviewer, both of them gave me a score of 6.5 where I know in myself I performed better than that.
Some of my friends fly to Singapore just to take the exam, my other friend even score 4 here in the Philippines but scored a minimum of 7 on all band in Singapore. ******** Filipino assesor in short.
Lucky are those who passed IELTS here in the Philippines.
IDP and BC earns 13 million minimum a month because of this papers, it's a REAL money making business. Anyways, I already get rid of this by earning higher points on other factors in the Australian Point System.
kristoffRN
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i got an overall band score of 8 but with a 6.5 in speaking, frustrating really considering that my other scores were Listening-8.5, reading 9, writing 7... Too bad there's no country that's lenient enough to consider my scores