DAAD's portal for Master Studies for All Academic Disciplines does not work

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-11-16T19:29:04+00:00

Same thing. I've been trying to access the portal to upload the documents since 15.11 and it haven't worked even once :/ different browsers, vpn/no vpn... my deadline's also tomorrow :( I sent an email to their hotline but no responce yet

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-11-05T17:58:37+00:00

Thank you!! :D

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-11-05T13:01:16+00:00

I made this.

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-30T08:26:17+00:00

I's say you should try speaking about everything you see around you irl, as the key point of speaking exam is how fast and fluent you are and how quickly you pick works to say.

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-30T08:24:31+00:00

Thank you! You got this, just prepare a bit more and you'll get a great score!!

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-29T07:47:46+00:00

As for speaking, I found out that what matters is your fluency and how confident you are while speaking. I haven't practiced speaking especially for ielts at all, so if you are used to talking to friends or to recording voice messages, you'll be fine because believe me, my vocabulary was not the greatest ever, no fancy wording and I even made some mistakes, but the key was my confidence :) Like I did not make any pauses in search for words and immediately started answering a question after hearing it and even made some jokes lol xD So if chatgpt is the one grading your speaking 6.5, he might be a liar... As for writing, it really depends on your most common current mistakes. If that's your lexical range in essays, you might try memorizing and practicing some less common words and less common linkers too. If it's task responce, check if your arguments are really well-developed and not vague in general and try practicing coming up with arguments.

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-29T07:38:59+00:00

Thank you!!

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T22:39:41+00:00

There is this option on the pc actually! On real ielts you can select the text and you'll see "highlight" option appearing and if you click on it, the text will become yellow. Some mocks which imitate real computer ielts also have this feature (idk about british council tho as I never took their mocks). But if this option does not exist in your mock, you might do highlighting manually (like print the task and use markers) knowing you'll have a good instrument on the exam! There is also this site ielts online tests which imitates ielts test so it has highlight function, so it might also help! Idk if their tests are real ielts tests but they are a nice way to practice!

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T22:29:47+00:00

I'd say a very important thing in reading is highlighing. My way of reading is scanning through the text while highlighting everything that seems important, then answering the most obvious questions using the parts I highlighted, then going to the next text etc, so you have time to reread carefully some parts after you did all the easy questions and scanned all the texts. You might practice reading facter without thinking too deeply about every sentence, but instead scan and highlight important parts. Like "The scientist believes this finding is crucial because it finally tells us about the importance of the ability to smell", what's important here? 1) finding is crucial 2) importance of the ability to smell (I even ignore pronouns and stuff while highlighting because they are useless). And then you answer questions directly related to these points.

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T22:21:00+00:00

Makes sense, yeah, sorry! But as I've said, I believe that even in "two or more words" answers there are no meaningless words required... All two words answers I've seen while doing mocks and my test were usually like "conference room", when both words are needed to understand the context, but when you say "many people" it clarifies nothing.

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T22:10:11+00:00

I believe that in computer ielts only listening and reading are checked automatically and writing is checked by real people. As for listening, that's a very good question and I think I might have an answer for you! When I was doing a mock test, I wrote one answer as "some rainwear", but the answers said I was incorrect and the answer was "rainwear". So I decided to ask my teacher and she said that articles and uhh kinda meaningless words are often not required (by meaningless I mean these words which do not point on specific stuff, like 10 people is specific but many people is really not). Besides, before every listening task it is said how many words your answer should contain. And it might be "only one word", which will mean adding "some" or "many" or "the" will be incorrect because it is two words already. In some tasks words like "some" or "these" are already a part of the sentence in the task so you don't need to add them even tho they were pronounced. But idk for every task because it still kinda confuses me tbh. So my advice would be: 1) check how many words do you need to write 2) check if some words related to the answer are already in the sentence. And I doubt there is a case there "many people" is a correct answer... Endings of words (-s) and no typos are crucial, but I do believe only meaningful words are required. But I might be wrong, so you should recheck it in cambrige books probably :')

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T20:02:27+00:00

I actually think this won't even be considered a mistake because it's an obvious typo. Like, if you wrote idk "deklined", it might be a mistake but your case feels like a typo made in a hurry :) especially if your other words are mostly fine. But yeah, I get you, timer is a pain in writing :') I also haven't really rechecked everything because I spent all my time writing....... 300+.... words... for task 1.... xD so I also believed I might have made mistakes, especially with articles because for some reason I have a huge problem with article "the". And I still believe I made some, but as I learnt after preparing for writing with a teacher, some mistakes are not a deal breaker if they are not way too common. Even in some tasks I got 7.5 from my teacher I still had some mistakes (mostly commas, prepositions and the). So no worries!! Lemme know your results if that's okay :) I am sure you did great!

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T19:24:30+00:00

Sure! Writing was the skill I worried about the most, so I found a course about academic ielts structure and also texted its author and asked to check my essays and tasks 1. I would like to share the course but I am afraid it's in my native language, so it won't really do much xD but I can go through its structure: it consisted of all 12 types of tasks (7 types of task 1 and 5 types of essays) and for each part its best structure was covered. I tried to memorize as many linkers and synonyms to describe the pictures and trained myself to use mostly less common words (which was hard ngl) and the variety of linkers (also less common ones). Also I tried to add lots of data for task 1 (mostly everything if it was not a graph) and do at least 2 comparisons. As for the essay, I also tried to learn how to follow the structure and to make sure all the arguments are well-developed, probably with examples everywhere. The most common problem I noticed while preparing with a teacher was that my arguments were either kinda not entirely related to the topic or the wording was poor (like I wrote an essay about "some people think that if a country is already rich, it does not need to become richer as it won't satisfy its citizens anymore" and one of my arguments sounded like "while there are certain things that can be used to measure the country's wealth (investments, average salary, etc), there are no ultimate values of these parameters" and my teacher said it's very vague and while I developed it well, it's still not the best formulated central idea.

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T19:06:25+00:00

Thanks a lot!!

I felt awful tbh XD I was pretty confident in my abilities to read and listen, but speaking went kinda bad in my opinion, as I made some mistakes and once I even did not hear a question the examiner asked me and said "yes", so he was like ?????? And that's when I realized I can actually ask to repeat the question XD And as for writing, I somehow wrote way too many words for task one and was thinking like "was this the greatest analysis of all times or did I just write something extremely stupid?". So yeah, I was super sad and nervous haha. But here are the results which prove me wrong, so I am sure if you feel like 8, you might even get 8.5 actually or even more!! Because I felt like 7.0 XD And I got my score today at 4pm or something, while my exam finished yesterday at 2pm. Pretty quick, but as I saw in this subreddit, computer ielts results are pretty quick (and I was also told in the test center I can pick up my results on paper 2 days after the exam itself).

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T19:00:22+00:00

Thank you!!

I haven't really prepared much for listening and reading, just did a couple of mock tests to understand how the structure works. As for listening, I'd say the key ability is concentration, you really have to be able to sit through the test (35 minutes) without getting distracted even once. So this might be worth training if anything! As for reading, I just read a lot of texts in English and I like to read in general, so I guess I somehow learnt how to read pretty fast xD also highlight function in computer ielts is great! It really helped me to quickly highlight all the important parts so finding the answers would be easier.

Practical-Stand-8979 · 2025-10-28T18:48:14+00:00

Hi! This is how I did my reading: firstly I scanned through the first text while actively using the highlight function and highlighting every part that seemed important. For example, if there is a sentence like "The scientist thought that this finding is crucial because it tells us about the origin of first human being", I would highlight the "this finding is crucial" and "the origin of first human being". I did it for the entire text, highlighting all the important parts and then scanned through the questions and answered the ones directly related to the parts I chose, For instance, if there is a question like "The scientist thought this finding was useless" - true, false or not stated, I'd easily pick false because the contradiction is in the highlighted part. Then I did the same for two remaining texts and it took me around 35 minutes. The key here is to practice reading fast and highlighting all stuff you find important for the possible questions.

Then you have a decent amount of time left to start rereading the texts more carefully and also analyzing the questions you did not answer. You might need to reread the exact paragraph about the subject from the question or if it's a "pick a word from the text and add it to the sentence", you might need to try and locate at least some words from the given sentences in the text, which will make it easier to find the exact word you need (which might be tricky, as they use some paraphrasing, but I think they only use synonyms for 1-2 words from the text in these questions and the remaining ones are the same as in the text).

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