I wanted to post this essay with the other, but the rules of the forum don't permit so, as the precedent, I am applying to a luxury management course and they asked me to answer on this issue. Could someone help me? thank you very much!!!
Please comment on an important learning experience you have been through. It could be a moment of success or one of failure
Due to my innate bent on technological and mathematical understandings, Management Engineering was not difficult to me. Although subjects like physics and machine were horrid, I did complete them discretely. I don't instead consider myself to be as skilled with languages as I am with numbers. Studying concepts and numbers to me is better than memorizing single word or sentence. Due to my linguistic weakness, learning English became an important and hard task I attempted recently.
I started to learn English since I was 6 years. English is a required subject in Chinese schools. As I can remember, I've never scored had perfect score in English, despite my high grades in other subjects as Arts and Math. After I've moved to Italy, I changed three teachers in five years of high school. None of them really taught me the language, not to mention instilling interests toward it. Before the GRE and TOEFL texts, I have never taken English seriously, I spoke it, but my vocabulary and grammar were shameful. Indeed, the first GRE results were demoralizingly far from my targets. That was one of my worse moments, hitting down my self-confidence.
Accustomed to learn things quickly, I couldn't accept that as a defeat. Hence, I planned to retake the exam a month later, studying more and harder. Through hard study and perseverance, my new scores were great, higher than 75% of other test takers. This learning journey taught me about my potential in subjects I may not love and reminded me that hard study is important to achieve every target.
Although I still have much to learn about English, I can state confidently I am not afraid of it anymore. The most successful part of this experience is the interior achievement, it allowed me to learn more, breaking the barrier between difficulties and me and it is definitely an input to incite me to accomplish my next targets.
Before the GRE and TOEFL texts, I have never taken English seriously, I spoke it, but my vocabulary and grammar were shameful. Indeed, the first GRE results were demoralizingly far from my targets. That was one of my worse moments, hitting down my self-confidence.
When trying to impress someone, I wouldn't say how low I felt, before rising. Although it may give a good impression of your perseverance, it definitely doesn't hide your ignorance in the past. I would mention something like- I didn't score up to my expectations or caliber,etc.But, as I never give up, I got good grades subsequently, due to my dedication and perseverance. Yeah , something like that. Hope you got it.
Thelearner : You are right indeed, what I said brought others to think I did not recognize an obvious important thing. Thank you!
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