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GOOD ADVICE!! - The Importance of English Proficiency
It is very important for your English to be good enough for you to get the complete benefit of your studies, be it a university foundation course, an undergraduate course, a master’s degree or doctoral research. For some areas of study, like sciences and computers, your English proficiency does not need to be the very highest – learning and understanding the technical concepts and using what you study competently in real situations is obviously more important than having perfect English! You will see that required IELTS / TOEFL scores are usually lower for science and computer courses. However, for other fields of study, like Law, Business and Journalism, where very good English is, for obvious reasons, vitally important, required IELTS / TOEFL scores are high (IELTS 7.0 or even 7.5 at top universities). This might seem unfair, but think of it like this: how can you expect to do well on an art course if you cannot draw pictures and images? (and, NO, you cannot just rely on computer graphics to do everything for you on an art course!!!).
IF YOU HAVE A CONDITIONAL OFFER BASED ON ACHIEVING AN IELTS SCORE, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU PREPARE BY STUDYING MORE ENGLISH – AN IELTS PREPARATION COURSE IS RECOMMENDED.