Talk about a time when you made a mistake. Please say
– what mistake it was
– when it happened
– how you made this mistake
– how it affected you.
Model answer
Well, I have no hesitation to admit that I make a lot of mistakes. While some of these mistakes don’t really affect us that negatively, the others harm very dearly just like the mistake I made in my high school years about 15 years ago when I studied and prepared for the wrong subject. Sounds pretty stupid, doesn’t it?
But, then again, when you are in high school and young, I guess that being stupid is allowed. However, the problem was that I was probably a bit more stupid than the other boys of my age. And, that’s probably why I seldom cared to write down the schedules for the test as a high school student.
Of course, such carelessness and stupidity of mine didn’t exactly cause much of a problem with my studies or test preparation since I could memorize them all by heart. But, that just didn’t happen unfortunately when I was a 9th-grade student and was preparing for my half-yearly test for the geography class. By the way, I was never really a good geography student, so I had to spend a great deal of extra time studying it in order to get some respectable score on it.
But, when I took my seat in the class and got the test paper in my hands, I couldn’t really believe my own eyes as the test paper, which I was looking at, was actually a test paper of social science. For a minute, I thought that the test supervisor must have made a mistake in picking up the right test papers from his office, but when I asked him about it, he told me in a very authoritative voice that it was I who had made the mistake. The supervisor was right.
Anyway, the mistake affected me really badly, primarily because I couldn’t answer the test questions properly, which also meant that I ended up getting a very poor score in my social science exam. But, the good thing was I finally learned my lesson because of this terrible mistake and started to write down all test schedules thereafter.
– when it happened
– how you made this mistake
– how it affected you.
Model answer
Well, I have no hesitation to admit that I make a lot of mistakes. While some of these mistakes don’t really affect us that negatively, the others harm very dearly just like the mistake I made in my high school years about 15 years ago when I studied and prepared for the wrong subject. Sounds pretty stupid, doesn’t it?
But, then again, when you are in high school and young, I guess that being stupid is allowed. However, the problem was that I was probably a bit more stupid than the other boys of my age. And, that’s probably why I seldom cared to write down the schedules for the test as a high school student.
Of course, such carelessness and stupidity of mine didn’t exactly cause much of a problem with my studies or test preparation since I could memorize them all by heart. But, that just didn’t happen unfortunately when I was a 9th-grade student and was preparing for my half-yearly test for the geography class. By the way, I was never really a good geography student, so I had to spend a great deal of extra time studying it in order to get some respectable score on it.
But, when I took my seat in the class and got the test paper in my hands, I couldn’t really believe my own eyes as the test paper, which I was looking at, was actually a test paper of social science. For a minute, I thought that the test supervisor must have made a mistake in picking up the right test papers from his office, but when I asked him about it, he told me in a very authoritative voice that it was I who had made the mistake. The supervisor was right.
Anyway, the mistake affected me really badly, primarily because I couldn’t answer the test questions properly, which also meant that I ended up getting a very poor score in my social science exam. But, the good thing was I finally learned my lesson because of this terrible mistake and started to write down all test schedules thereafter.
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