Name: IELTS Speaking Test- Excellent Band 9.0
Uploaded: 2024-08-25T07:32:07.000Z
Duration: 15 min 56 s
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Let's start off with asking you, do you work or do you study?

Past simple

It's an edtech platform that connects students with scholarships at universities around the world.

So I work full time, longer than full time, if you may say.

So we give, you know, students that come from hardworking middle class families or working class families a chance at going to the university of their dreams.

And personally, I love that about what we do.

No. But have I always wanted to work in something that would allow me to create an impact?

Yes. Everything I've ever done in my life has been around companies with impact or with social causes.

And somebody once asked me if I wasn't with Secure My Scholarship, what would you do?

Is there anything that you dislike about your job?

But if you ask my fiance, she will tell you that my job takes up a lot of my time.

Would you like to do any other job in the future?

I got my hands full with Secure My Scholarship right now.

You know, I mean, I love solving problems and helping make people's lives better.

The company basically runs off my mobile phone.

It allows me to track my tasks and manage my day.

I'm not one of those guys with 1,500 apps on their phone.

I have about eight or nine apps that I use.

Do you think that you use your phone too much sometimes?

Before Secure My Scholarship, myself and the same founding team, we actually founded a startup called Lock & Stock.

It was a mobile app that basically rewarded you with offers and discounts for not using your phone when you were in class.

We wanted to kind of help students pay attention more in class, learn better, do better in their studies.

And then when they were done, they could buy one, get one free at the pizza place or something like that.

But I think the beauty with school is that the later in life you go, the more you begin to appreciate the school that you went to.

My favorite teacher was a woman named Mrs. Mallika Menon.

She was my math teacher in grades 10 and 11.

And I really liked her classes and I really enjoyed them.

And what specifically did you dislike about school?

I went to a school that made academic performance very, very important.

Everything revolved around, okay, do better.

You gotta do better, your grades, all of that stuff.

Much to the neglect of maybe extracurriculars or sports,

I played cricket and football in high school.

And I remember we wouldn't have any training practices, any practice matches.

We wouldn't go to any tournaments or we'd go to very few tournaments.

And I didn't particularly like that when I was in school.

The focus on academics and not really on other stuff.

Describe a period of time from your studies that was difficult.

I'd say the hardest time during my studies that was difficult was when I was in university,

To go to the university that I went to, it required a lot of effort.

I think my parents really saved to send me to university and I had to get a bunch of scholarships and all of that stuff.

I wanted to make the most of it, but I didn't quite know how to do that.

I was majoring in economics, but I also wanted to study this class and this class and this class and all of that stuff and really make the most of my time because I was lucky to be at the university that I went to.

This was perhaps 2015, 2016, second or third year of university.

It was hard because I had only a limited amount of time and to fit all of this stuff in.

But I think through that experience and I came out very well, through that experience I learned,

I think I learned time management, just actually breaking down what I wanted to do, how I wanted to do it.

I had to schedule out my day and my week very, very, very well and really just make it happen for myself.

Because the school I went to, everything was given to you on a platter.

These are your classes, this is what you gotta do.

But at university, I had to basically make my own schedule.

And if you were doing a simple major and that was it, then no harm, no foul.

I graduated with a major in economics and minors in political science, international relations, mass communication and business administration.

I would have had another minor in finance as well.

So I had four minors that I graduated with along with my major and I would have had a fifth minor as well.

And to make all of this work and just fit it into my schedule, super difficult.

But as I said, I was lucky to be at university when I was and I wanted to make the most of my time there.

So we've been talking about a difficult time you had at university and we're gonna continue to talk about university education and higher education in general.

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