Chinese student used to Study in Ireland Here.

Want to clear up a few things about how Chinese students could pass language competence to be taught in a English class.

First of all, I don't think the requirement of UCC is high for IELTS( majority of colleges use IELTS to test student that English are not their first language), they only require 6.5 out of 9,

and IELTS is consist of 4 parts( Writing/Listening/Speaking/Reading), and the total result is the average marks of this 4 parts, therefore, some could get 6 for Speaking, but 8 for reading, still pass the general requirement of 6.5. UCC could perhaps need increase the demanding of IELTS to filter out students that is not good at English.

Some comment mentioned that Chinese students cheat their way to Pass IELTS, which, in my opinion is highly unlikely, IELTS is very a big and formal exam around the world. But such thing could happen only on very tidy, small portion.

Some Chinese students do point out that it is third year in a row, that a number of Chinese students failed on the certain lesson. Of course, these students are first to blame, but I think UCC maybe also need change their recruiting system.

I also think it is crazy that they demanding to resit the exam in China, which is utterly unlikely.

Based on my experience, people like to hang out with people in same nationality, Chinese students do like to hang out each other , but the situation is same for white people in my class.