Results. Non-native.
Non-native. 17 Male. Computer-based. Took me ~5 months of practice with my (irl) teacher.
I was super nervous entering the first part of the exam, but I sat on the computer and felt better after a couple of minutes. I wasn’t sure on how to spell “bicycle” on the listening and I got that wrong lol. I spelled it “bycicle” or something. Eh. Reading and writing went fine.
Speaking I got super nervous yet again. I started stuttering my words, on the second part the examiner signaled I didn’t talk enough and there was a significant pause between my first part of talking and the sentence I added because of her signal. My grammar sucked also I was super nervous. Last part, I misheard one of the questions. The examiner repeated the question because she understood I didn’t hear it well. At the end of the exam I kept talking meanwhile the examiner told me several times “thank you that’s enough”. I couldn’t hear it. I messed the whole section up.
My private teacher is confused I flunked the speaking part, as I did very well while practicing, but understood I got stressed.
I wanna retake speaking, but my parents aren’t allowing me to. They’re saying nobody cares enough, my results are really good either way and it would be a waste of time and a potential risk to redo a section.