The moment of truth
Today I finally took my immigration consultant licensing exam, and… honestly, I’m still a little stunned that it actually happened. The results are still under wraps — I have to wait at least 8 weeks — but my inner barometer says, ‘It should all be fine’ 👍
Ungraded exam: you either pass or you don't. Such a harsh binary. There are several attempts, but I, of course, hope that I coped with the first one - somehow I don’t want to turn this into a series with a continuation.
In general, during the preparation time, for which I heroically allocated a whole week... Well, the truth is, “kisses” is an elastic concept when you have schoolchildren and many other mandatory things besides the exam. But! The preparation plan was written in advance and, surprisingly, despite everything, it was fully implemented.
Many people asked me about the exam, so I’ll tell you in just a few words what it looked like. I rented it out at home. To do this, I had to half-disarm the room: take out everything unnecessary, clear the table, leave only the computer, a piece of paper, a pen and a driver’s license. But even with such minimalism, the proctor, without blinking an eye, asked to remove the piece of paper and pen.
The exam lasted 3 hours, there were 135 questions - about one and a half minutes each. Before pressing the coveted ‘Start’ button, a full inspection of the room awaited me: I spun the computer around the table, showed the proctor the ceiling, walls, floor, even the mirror - it seems that I introduced him well to my interior. Then we went to the computer. It seems the proctor on it turned off just about everything.
The first minutes seemed like an eternity, and then it became clear: if you don’t keep up the pace, you won’t have time to do anything. Fortunately, I fit in - I answered everything and even managed to find 7 minutes to review the marked questions again. A small victory inside a big one.
On the plus side - and probably important for me personally - during this week of preparation, I not only repeated everything that I had ever been taught and completed a whole load of tests, but also learned to easily switch between English and French in the immigration context, read a ton of laws and documents, and suddenly everything that seemed scattered came together in my head into one whole picture. Very cool feeling.
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