Days of Immaturity

IELTS考完了，感覺算可以。
Listening和Reading沒如想像中完美；Writing的Part I感覺不錯，Part II就不太夠時間了。

今次考試比較特別的地方在於選了酒店為試場。
由到達試場登記，輪候寄存隨身物件，及後在鋪了純白桌布、以硬卡紙劃分為兩邊的長餐桌上答卷，感覺都很有趣。
Reading只剩五分鐘，Writing更沒有剩下任何時間；連續三小時左右的考試，其實沒有想像中漫長。

比較出乎意料的是Speaking。考官竟不是外國人，預計會像輕鬆面談反而變成像被審問。我明白考官在面對了整天的工作會感到疲倦，但垂著眼簾、以極速進行趕著完成的態度，太不專業了吧。
算了。已經在寫xanga時埋怨過了，在此quote一次算吧。

Then it came to the Speaking, which was totally OUT of my expectation.
For what I have heard, I started believing there would only be non-Chinese examiners.
But I just got a 30 something Chinese lady who acted nothing like talking and discussing with me.
She spoke fast as hell (although not fast enough to lose me… lol) with no smile. And when I was talking, she acted like falling asleep. It was nothing like a friendly and nice chat that I have heard and expected.

But the worst part was the “discussion” task. I knew examiners tend to get candidates talking in case we got nothing to talk about. But this lady? She barely let me think!
After she STATED the questions (is it the so called “discussion”?), she wouldn’t wait for me to think for a second or two.
She just burst out the follow up explanation to the questions and said “Do you understand what does that mean?” (still speaking in a goddamn rushing speed).
I was forced to say something even before I could do the least amount of thinking!
“As the population of the world is growing, what do you think the government should do to cope with this situation?” Hell man I might not be able to give a decent answer to questions like that, not even if I had time to think!! IF I had.

And what made it worst of the worst was what she had said at the end.
“Actually I expected blahblahblah but you have been talking about something else.”
What the stupid hell are you talking about?! What do you mean by “expected”?!
It IS a discussion. Not a QnA session!
In a discussion, even you didn’t receive the expected “answer”, you try to continue the communication!
As an examiner, even you would try your best to finish the job quick, you don’t confuse a discussion with a interrogation!