1. Environment around the examination room
★ Overall transportation: It takes about 30 minutes to take a taxi from North Station to the foot of the mountain, and the subway needs to transfer to Line 3 1 and it takes 1H20 minutes, which is very crowded.
★ Food: There will be several bakeries and small restaurants around the foot of the mountain, and then there will be many small supermarkets where you can buy water. In addition to the old yogurt made from soles, there is also a yogurt in the big supermarket. Other small supermarkets basically don't sell yogurt. The only one who bought yogurt bought two bottles. One bottle hasn't expired. It really stinks. Have no money to pay the electricity bill?
★ Accommodation reservation: Outside Sichuan, on the mountain, next to southwest politics and law, there is no accommodation around the school. Only from the map, there is only one regular accommodation hotel near here, Morning Art Hotel, which often calls itself a team, so it doesn't make reservations. The other is Taizhou Hotel, which is far away. It is said that it is very old and has poor sound insulation. There will be a telephone in the middle of the night. In addition, the serviced apartments that can be seen online are almost all square apartment buildings called Jinyuecheng at the foot of the mountain. Probably every "hotel" will rent several rooms on each floor of this building. Of course, this building should also have long-term tenants or buy a house. Anyway, it's a mess.
★ Accommodation safety: I originally booked a hotel called Bieyuan, which is actually very easy to stay together. I went upstairs to the second floor and called the front desk building. As soon as I got out of the elevator, someone came out and asked me if I wanted to wash my feet. Then I looked around at all kinds of red advertisements and baths, and then I went to the front desk. The white sheets along the way have the illusion of climbing mountains and mountains. Arriving at the front desk, I feel even more unsightly. It's very small, very simple. While an uncle was looking up his name, a lady kept urging him to add 60 yuan and 60 yuan on weekends. So I propose to go upstairs and have a look before deciding. When I went upstairs, I found that the agreed single room was not a single room, but a single room with two rooms and one living room. There is only one bed in the room, and the other room is locked and occupied. I left without telling me this information before. At that time, I was anxious to continue to find a hotel apartment called Baihua on Qunar. com. com。
The other party told me there was a single room, so he took him back to the building. Only after paying did he know that the name of the front desk was happy hour, not birch. Generally speaking, the room looks ok, and the air conditioning fee is 200/ night+10/ day. Give the key when paying the air conditioning fee, but the plug in the room is locked and no one is reminded to open it. Later, when you look carefully in the bathroom kitchen, you find that there is glass on the opposite side, and the pattern posted is very shallow. You should be able to see the inside from the outside. The door lock is a password lock, and people have been trying the password at the door at night. The whole stay feels really bad.
★ Accommodation and transportation: At first, the front desk told me that taxis don't drive up the mountain because drivers don't run because they are too far away, but the fact is that even at the gate outside Sichuan, there are many taxis willing to pick up passengers and drive in, let alone run to school from the mountain. Secondly, maybe the TOEFL test center is different from the IELTS test center. The taxi driver will tell you that you have to go a long way to persuade you to take a taxi, but the TOEFL test center is very, very close. From the school gate to the examination room, you only need to turn two bends and descend a slope for 5 minutes at most, which is about 10 minutes from the foot of the mountain to the school gate and 1 from the bus stop, that is, from the foot of the mountain to the examination center, 15 minutes.
2. Internal environment of examination room
If the external environment of the examination room is so bad that I can't accept it, I won't know what is bad until I really walk into the examination room outside Sichuan.
★ Pre-test process: The examination room is located on the first floor. After entering the floor, store things first, and then put food on the table outside the computer room. This computer room is specially designed for students to fill in confidentiality agreements, but they are not allowed to leave after filling in confidentiality agreements. From around 8: 0010, there will be a teacher to talk about a series of escape requirements in the examination room, just like the IELTS test, until around 8:20. Unfortunately, candidates are still not allowed to leave after the lecture. They can't go out to queue or go to the toilet until the teacher tells them to. So I waited until about 8: 35, and 100 people began to line up in the AB examination room at the door. And this queue is not queued into the examination room, but into an office. Two teachers are in charge of taking pictures. Taking a serious photo will make you lean forward and backward, which is more serious than taking a registration photo. I don't think I need to describe the feelings of the people waiting in line behind this process. This speed is simply. After taking photos, we will take the exam according to the serial number of the examination room assigned by the photo teacher, because there is no big examination room outside Sichuan. The so-called AB examination room is fake, but it is actually six small classrooms. I would also like to mention here that just before I want to take pictures, a boy came back from the examination room and said that the position assigned by the photo teacher had been occupied. What a bad management or wrong operation. This is the first time I have encountered such a low-level mistake. I think I'm about 120 100. It was already 9: 20 when I entered the examination room. In other words, from 8: 35, everyone has to wait in line for an hour. The efficiency of queuing for photos is too low. I can say that many people are hungry before the exam.
★ Check the equipment: computer machines, keyboards and headphones are all working normally, or these are too insignificant compared with other things. As for the sound insulation board, there is probably no sound insulation board. I can't even guess that it is a glass plate, because it is a very short plastic plate. Maybe friends in the back row can see the display screen of the person in front. The largest draft paper in the examination room is only 16k. In short, it is very small, and it is only small. It is the kind of paper that is as transparent as cellophane, with a smooth side and a rough side, and the paper is impure and doped with some other substances. The smooth side may be unclear, the rough side is ok, but the background is also very fancy. The cost of paper is estimated to be a penny at most, and pencils may be more worth spitting. Before the exam, I explained the exam. The so-called director said that we only gave everyone a bullet pencil, not because we were poor, but because this pen was enough. How can I put it? I believed it then. After all, IELTS pencils used to sign confidentiality agreements are all good. But when I entered the examination room, I got the bullet pen A, and the nib was cracked. No matter how good the tip is, I asked how to write it. So the male examiner also selected the remaining two pens for me. One of the pens, B, is directly missing, and there is a better pen, C, so I use this pen for the time being.
★ Examination environment: I heard that the TOEFL examination room is air-conditioned at 20 degrees all the year round, but this examination room outside Sichuan made me completely give up believing in this fairy tale. There is no air conditioning in the examination room outside Sichuan. It looks about 20 to 30 degrees. Later, I almost sweated. There is no air conditioning, only a big open window. Maybe I want to take advantage of the advantages of mountains and natural winds. However, this natural wind is not kind. I don't know what is being built around me. Anyway, it's just noisy. Moreover, I feel that this voice is coming from the school, that is, the school knows that there is a TOEFL test here, and it is repairing things outside, and occasionally hears two military training slogans. I really feel that the examination room is poorly set up.
★ Examiner's quality: I have never met such a heinous examiner, no matter TOEFL or any exam. First of all, I can be said to be the last one in our examination room. After I went in, I changed my pen and began to write and read. Suddenly, there was a female teacher talking and laughing loudly in the corridor outside. Coupled with the noise outside, I can only cover my ears and read books, and I can't study quietly. Secondly, the listening test is over, so it's time to have a rest. I asked the male examiner if I could have some sharp refills. The refills in my pen are too thick to write. I'll change them myself. The male examiner is very friendly. He told me to take a break. I'll change. I believed him, too Come back from rest and unlock your spoken English. I found that the pen with a sharp refill on the desk turned out to be a pen, indicating that the nib was cracked. Maybe there are too many sharp refills in the cracked pen, and the male examiner is lazy. After all, it is much more difficult to change a pen with all bad refills into a good one than to change a pen with only a few bad refills into a sharp one. But at this time, a 50-year-old female invigilator stood by. I told her that the pen was broken, and she walked out of the examination room while saying that she would change it for me, and she didn't come back for a long time. My spoken English is about to begin, and I am reading the instructions. I can only say that I have no patience. At this time, the male examiner came back. He handed me the two pens left on the desk, so I chose pen C to write. At this time, my task 1 has already started and I am reading the topic. I was just about to write 15s when the female examiner came with a good pen. And in this only 15s, she insisted that I give her the other two pens with my left hand, which is not enough. She even took the pen I was writing in order to change it. I think the whole person is in a state of ignorance. This whole 15s plus reading questions, I only have about 5 seconds to think, let alone write. What is even more speechless is that the examiner took the pen, and I was angry that she didn't take it. I cann't believe she took the good pen. Then the spoken language is one after another. There was no time for the invigilator to change the pen, and the pen in his hand was only better, and the crack began to get bigger. I finally found an opportunity and waved to the male examiner to change the pen halfway, but he ignored me. He turned a blind eye when I sat face to face with him in the first row. Finally, after the oral exam, I asked the teacher to change my pen, absolutely speechless. What is even more speechless afterwards is that the invigilator's explanation for the pen grabbing incident is that the examinee took it away because he didn't need it. For this sentence, I really can only hehe.
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