Abubakar said that he had taken courage and written another examination, and this time, resolved that he would achieve an A grade.
Unfortunately, he had once again failed the WAEC English language exam.
He was unfazed by this, though, and made the decision to take the English Language Testing System (IELTS), a test of language proficiency created by the British Council and Cambridge Assessment English.
Abubakar disclosed that his preparation for the test had only taken a week, and his performance was successful enough to get him two overseas scholarships.
In his words,
“My little story with English Language Exam.
In 2007, I took the WAEC exam at Dawakin Kudu Science College. Despite having good grades in all the other subjects, I failed the English language in my WAEC result. When I registered for another SSCE, my intention was to get an A, not even a B.
Despite all the courage I had for that exam, I wrote it to the best of my ability at Government Secondary School in Kano, and I passed all the subjects except for the English language.
For the first time, I decided to register for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), an English Language proficiency test developed and run by the British Council in partnership with Cambridge Assessment English.