{"id":6571,"date":"2021-07-10T13:57:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ielts.completesuccess.in\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2021-07-10T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T15:39:53","slug":"describe-a-time-when-you-tried-to-do-something-but-werent-very-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ielts.completesuccess.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/describe-a-time-when-you-tried-to-do-something-but-werent-very-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe a time when you tried to do something but weren\u2019t very successful."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You should say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>When it was<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>What you tried<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Why it was not very successful<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>And how you felt about it.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It was my sister\u2019s birthday on 26th May. I am not very good at choosing presents, so I play it safe. She loves chocolate cake and so I order it for her every year. It is kind of a tradition in our house, that I will get a cake. No one even thinks about it or even asks me. However, this year due to the lockdown, all the bakery shops were closed. There is a famous home baker in my city, who bakes on order. So, next, I tried that, but unfortunately, she was swamped with orders. She told me she could not deliver the cake by the birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I was in a real pickle. The only option was to bake a cake myself. And honestly, I am a horrible cook and I had never even done any sort of baking. But desperate times call for desperate measures. So, I opened YouTube and opened the beginner basics video for making a chocolate cake. I checked the ingredients and we had all of them at home except cream. I thought I could use milk instead. And needless to say, that was my first mistake. Nothing went right from that point on. My cake dough was runny instead of semi-solid like the video suggested. My icing tasted awful, probably because of the milk. I didn\u2019t even dare put it on. I spent nearly five hours in the kitchen, made a huge mess with flour, cocoa powder on all the shelves and the floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end result was a hard dense awfully tasting something. My mom told me that I should have asked her for help. I felt bad that I couldn\u2019t deliver but my family members just couldn\u2019t stop laughing. I think my embarrassment and the kitchen\u2019s condition made it even more amusing to them. It is now a running joke in our house. In the middle of any conversation, my parents or my sister randomly bring up the incident and start laughing. I think they are going to tease me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Follow-ups<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What&#8217;s your definition of success?<br>My definition is success is that, the outcome should make me and my family happy. I don\u2019t care what others feel or how others rate my performance, if I am happy with the results, I feel I have succeeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What things do children try to succeed in?<br>The main thing that children try to succeed in are sports competition and studies. Besides that, childhood is the time of learning skills, so children try to be successful in learning skills like riding a bicycle, learning to dance, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which do you think is more important for people to become successful, handwork or opportunities?<br>I think both are equally important in some regards. There is no doubt in my head that rich people get better education and work opportunities, but the difficult and challenging circumstances during childhood make people from poor families more mentally strong. 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