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- Whom you helped?
- How you helped?
- How this person reacted to your help?
- How did you feel after helping him/her?
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Band 7
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A person that I helped is my sister. She had a fear of water. She never went into or even near anything that was surrounded with water, especially swimming pools, oceans, rivers and that kind of stuff. So I signed her up for swimming classes. Initially, she was really mad at me because she didn't want to do it. But along with her, I also signed myself up. I went with her for the swimming classes every day. First of all, she was extremely scared to even go near the water. But I also hired an instructor to help us through the process. Gradually, she started overcoming her fear little by little and she started stepping into the water. But she never really dipped her face in it. And I thought that was okay for the time being. Eventually, we went to the classes for about a month and slowly and gradually she overcame her fear of water and started to learn to swim properly. Once the classes were complete, she was extremely grateful for me that I albeit forcefully helped her overcome her fear of water. And after helping her, I felt like a new renewed person. I saw it as an extremely nice way of personal development. And I definitely would like to help any other person in any sort of way if I can, that improves their life, because it does feel really great. It really helps you understand life in much more deeper ways than you have imagined. And yeah, it was an amazing experience.
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What motivated you to help your sister overcome her fear of water?
I was motivated by my desire to see her live a fuller life without the limitations of her fear. I knew that overcoming this fear would open up new experiences for her, like enjoying the beach or swimming with friends. I wanted to support her in achieving that freedom.
How did your sister feel about the swimming classes after some time?
Initially, she was resistant and angry about attending the classes. However, as she progressed and started to feel more comfortable in the water, her attitude changed. By the end, she was grateful and excited about her new skills, which made me really happy.
What other ways do you think you can help people in their personal development?
I believe there are many ways to help others, such as mentoring, volunteering, or simply being a supportive friend. Encouraging someone to pursue their passions or helping them face their fears can be incredibly rewarding and impactful in their lives.
Band 7
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Recently, I attended various expos representing a company called Audible and through that I was assigned the work of onboarding FPOs on ONDC network. So FPOs are farmer producer organization and we onboarded them on a digital platform so that they can sell their products on that platform. So this was very helpful for the FPOs as they had gained digital market access and widened their market to whole India rather than their just city or town. Moreover, we also provide training on how to use this platform on ONDC and how it can benefit them. It also had the features of inventory management and checking orders from all the accounts simultaneously. Furthermore, we also provided assistance for packaging because FPO products are usually agricultural products or somewhat value-added products. So we provide them help regarding packaging so that your products should look good on online websites like Paytm and Mystore. It should be competing with other products so packaging is the first thing that the customer sees before buying your product. Therefore, packaging suggestions were provided, ideal packaging samples were shown to them so that they can gain better prices by the same product with better packaging. To conclude, helping these FPOs, I registered 45 plus FPOs on ONDC platform reaching out to around 4500 people, basically farmers. So this was very enriching for me as I am an agriculture student. This was a very fruitful event for me and I gained a lot of insight and also this will be a significant growth in my career.
Follow up questions
Follow up questions
What motivated you to help FPOs with digital onboarding?
As an agriculture student, I wanted to bridge the gap between traditional farming and modern technology. Helping FPOs access digital platforms not only supports their growth but also aligns with my passion for enhancing agricultural practices.
How did the FPOs react to the digital platform?
The FPOs were initially hesitant but became excited once they understood the benefits. Many expressed gratitude for the opportunity to reach a larger market and appreciated the training on using the platform effectively.
What challenges did you face while assisting the FPOs?
One major challenge was the varying levels of digital literacy among the FPO members. Some were unfamiliar with technology, so we had to tailor our training sessions to ensure everyone could understand and utilize the platform effectively.
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Band 6-7
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So, I think that helping is a quality that everybody should have in their lives because that is what separates us from other living organisms and speaking about this, I would like to talk about a time I helped my friend Rishi. So this story dates back to my school days when my friend Rishi needed a guitar for an upcoming music contest in our school. So when my brother came back from Canada recently, so he bought a guitar for me and since I was still in my learning stage and I wanted to, I was still learning and my friend Rishi needed help. He came up to me and said that he really needs that guitar to perform on the day and if that does not happen, he would lose a chance to perform in front of his favorite celebrity Diljit Dosanjh and being the friend I am, I lended my guitar to Rishi and sure enough, he did really well in the competition and in fact, he won the competition in front of his favorite star Diljit Dosanjh and it made me feel really proud of Rishi and I felt really great in contributing in some way to help my friend achieve his goal. So that is the story I would like to share and about speaking, otherwise helping is such a great quality, like it makes you feel involved in the other person's life.
Follow up questions
Follow up questions
Why do you think helping others is important?
Helping others fosters a sense of community and connection. It enhances relationships and promotes empathy, making society more compassionate. When we help others, we also grow personally, learning valuable lessons about kindness and support.
Can you share another experience where you helped someone?
Certainly! There was a time when I helped a classmate who was struggling with math. I spent extra hours tutoring him, and eventually, he improved significantly. It was rewarding to see his confidence grow, and it reinforced my belief in the importance of helping others.
How do you feel when someone helps you?
When someone helps me, I feel grateful and valued. It creates a sense of trust and strengthens our bond. I appreciate their support, and it motivates me to pay it forward by helping others in need, creating a cycle of kindness.
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Band 6-7
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When I was in college, I happened to help my junior with the decoration part as we had Pongal festival the next week. So, let me show you how to make Pongal. Back then when I was in college, I happened to help one of my junior with the decoration part for the Pongal celebration and she is very sweet girl. She is very sweet. Back then when I was in college, I happened to help my junior with the decoration part for the Pongal celebration and I liked her very much. Even though I was occupied with heavy work, I was interested to help her. It was a hectic day, I didn't have any rest. I was occupied in lab with my project work but as soon as she asked for help, I managed time and went to the venue and helped her with the decoration part. I made some roses with paper and some decorations by pasting balloons on the wall and with the rangoli part. She felt very happy and it was overwhelming for me also to look her that happy and she is someone very close to me. She started thanking me from bottom of her heart but I am someone who can never say no to people who ask for help. So it was another day for me to randomly help people. Usually I will feel good about myself because someone who look for help, I will volunteer and help with whatever I can possible. I also helped my friends with studying because they weren't regular to the classes and they never had notes with them. So I will teach them how the mechanism works and how.
Follow up questions
Follow up questions
How did you feel after helping your junior with the decorations?
I felt really fulfilled and happy. Seeing her joy made all the effort worth it. It was rewarding to know that my help made a difference in her experience of the festival.
Have you helped others in similar situations since then?
Yes, I often find myself helping friends and classmates with their studies or projects. I believe in supporting others, and it has become a part of who I am.
What do you think is the importance of helping others?
Helping others fosters a sense of community and connection. It not only benefits the person receiving help but also enriches the helper's life, creating a positive cycle of support and kindness.
Band 5-6
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so it is the time when I was in my college so it was an evening time and I was just coming coming back to home from my college and I was waiting for a bus at thermage then at that time the bus came and I just go and take my seats the conductor came to me and got my ticket afterwards after after after sometimes a young lady young lady young lady come to next to me young lady who was seated next to me was crying because she don't have money to buy a ticket I just asked her that hello miss what's your what is the problem why are you crying she just tell me with her soft soft voice that she don't have money she forget her wallet and now she don't know that how can she will buy the tickets and what if the conductor not let her seat seated there so the ticket to the tickets the ticket amount of thermage to petalad was just 40 rupees I just gave her 40 rupees and I told her that keep it it's okay you if if you don't if you don't get me back then it's completely alright I feel like at that time I just show I just see the relief on her face because you know having like having no money is very difficult to survive in this world
Follow up questions
Follow up questions
Why do you think helping others is important?
Helping others fosters a sense of community and support. It can create a positive environment where people feel valued and cared for. Additionally, acts of kindness can inspire others to help, creating a ripple effect that benefits society as a whole.
Have you ever received help from someone? How did it make you feel?
Yes, I have received help during a difficult time in my life. It made me feel grateful and reminded me of the kindness that exists in the world. It also motivated me to pay it forward and help others whenever I can.
What are some other ways people can help each other?
People can help each other in various ways, such as volunteering their time, offering emotional support, sharing resources, or providing mentorship. Small acts of kindness, like listening or giving advice, can also make a significant difference in someone's life.
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Band 7
Recently, I attended various expos representing a company called Audible and through that I was assigned the work of onboarding FPOs on ONDC network. So FPOs are farmer producer organization and we onboarded them on a digital platform so that they can sell their products on that platform. So this was very helpful for the FPOs as they had gained digital market access and widened their market to whole India rather than their just city or town. Moreover, we also provide training on how to use this platform on ONDC and how it can benefit them. It also had the features of inventory management and checking orders from all the accounts simultaneously. Furthermore, we also provided assistance for packaging because FPO products are usually agricultural products or somewhat value-added products. So we provide them help regarding packaging so that your products should look good on online websites like Paytm and Mystore. It should be competing with other products so packaging is the first thing that the customer sees before buying your product. Therefore, packaging suggestions were provided, ideal packaging samples were shown to them so that they can gain better prices by the same product with better packaging. To conclude, helping these FPOs, I registered 45 plus FPOs on ONDC platform reaching out to around 4500 people, basically farmers. So this was very enriching for me as I am an agriculture student. This was a very fruitful event for me and I gained a lot of insight and also this will be a significant growth in my career.
Band 7
A person that I helped is my sister. She had a fear of water. She never went into or even near anything that was surrounded with water, especially swimming pools, oceans, rivers and that kind of stuff. So I signed her up for swimming classes. Initially, she was really mad at me because she didn't want to do it. But along with her, I also signed myself up. I went with her for the swimming classes every day. First of all, she was extremely scared to even go near the water. But I also hired an instructor to help us through the process. Gradually, she started overcoming her fear little by little and she started stepping into the water. But she never really dipped her face in it. And I thought that was okay for the time being. Eventually, we went to the classes for about a month and slowly and gradually she overcame her fear of water and started to learn to swim properly. Once the classes were complete, she was extremely grateful for me that I albeit forcefully helped her overcome her fear of water. And after helping her, I felt like a new renewed person. I saw it as an extremely nice way of personal development. And I definitely would like to help any other person in any sort of way if I can, that improves their life, because it does feel really great. It really helps you understand life in much more deeper ways than you have imagined. And yeah, it was an amazing experience.
Band 6-7
So, I think that helping is a quality that everybody should have in their lives because that is what separates us from other living organisms and speaking about this, I would like to talk about a time I helped my friend Rishi. So this story dates back to my school days when my friend Rishi needed a guitar for an upcoming music contest in our school. So when my brother came back from Canada recently, so he bought a guitar for me and since I was still in my learning stage and I wanted to, I was still learning and my friend Rishi needed help. He came up to me and said that he really needs that guitar to perform on the day and if that does not happen, he would lose a chance to perform in front of his favorite celebrity Diljit Dosanjh and being the friend I am, I lended my guitar to Rishi and sure enough, he did really well in the competition and in fact, he won the competition in front of his favorite star Diljit Dosanjh and it made me feel really proud of Rishi and I felt really great in contributing in some way to help my friend achieve his goal. So that is the story I would like to share and about speaking, otherwise helping is such a great quality, like it makes you feel involved in the other person's life.
Band 6-7
When I was in college, I happened to help my junior with the decoration part as we had Pongal festival the next week. So, let me show you how to make Pongal. Back then when I was in college, I happened to help one of my junior with the decoration part for the Pongal celebration and she is very sweet girl. She is very sweet. Back then when I was in college, I happened to help my junior with the decoration part for the Pongal celebration and I liked her very much. Even though I was occupied with heavy work, I was interested to help her. It was a hectic day, I didn't have any rest. I was occupied in lab with my project work but as soon as she asked for help, I managed time and went to the venue and helped her with the decoration part. I made some roses with paper and some decorations by pasting balloons on the wall and with the rangoli part. She felt very happy and it was overwhelming for me also to look her that happy and she is someone very close to me. She started thanking me from bottom of her heart but I am someone who can never say no to people who ask for help. So it was another day for me to randomly help people. Usually I will feel good about myself because someone who look for help, I will volunteer and help with whatever I can possible. I also helped my friends with studying because they weren't regular to the classes and they never had notes with them. So I will teach them how the mechanism works and how.
Band 6
I would like to talk about a person who was my colleague in the company and also was a friend of mine. Back then in 2022, we used to share in the same company and in the same office. It was a diamond industry. His name was Gautam. One day he caught up in an accident and was injured and he injured his right hand. So it is hard for him to work on computer. So I helped him to increase his production by helping him to create his file in my computer. That way his production was the same as regular. And he thanked me for that by helping me to complete my work as well as on the internet. And I feel very good by helping him. The generosity he showed to me by helping him was very nice to see. The friend of mine is very good and I would like to work with him for more years. I would like us to work together in the same company and we enjoy our company with each other. And the love between us will never end.
Band 6
There was a time when I helped my best friend to get admission in my college. There were late admissions happening in my college back in 2015. My best friend Rishika was trying hard to get in some other university. However, she could not get admission there. At last, she had only the option of coming to my university. She asked my help. I made sure she get all the study materials on time so that she could clear the entrance exam. Moreover, we did a group study. In addition to that, we went to one of the professors in my university. I told her to get all the important notes with her so that she could write an entrance exam and get good scores. Luckily, she gave the exam and was passed. I was so happy. She was very grateful for my help. What can be more better than having a best friend to share three years of college together. It makes me really feel good about how I helped her. That was really good.
Band 6
so like one week before I helped my girlfriend and she was like she was she was stuck in in a topic of making a project as I am an engineering student I have made many many I have made a bunch of excel sheets etc on my computer so I decided to help her out she gave me her project and I created a very elegant and beautiful project on the topic India and its and its culture she and I and I have surprisingly provided her sent her the project at night so she woke up and she always check the email she she check the email and she got surprise she called me and and she reacted like wow and thanks and she like attracted me attracted me more on the morning
Band 5-6
so it is the time when I was in my college so it was an evening time and I was just coming coming back to home from my college and I was waiting for a bus at thermage then at that time the bus came and I just go and take my seats the conductor came to me and got my ticket afterwards after after after sometimes a young lady young lady young lady come to next to me young lady who was seated next to me was crying because she don't have money to buy a ticket I just asked her that hello miss what's your what is the problem why are you crying she just tell me with her soft soft voice that she don't have money she forget her wallet and now she don't know that how can she will buy the tickets and what if the conductor not let her seat seated there so the ticket to the tickets the ticket amount of thermage to petalad was just 40 rupees I just gave her 40 rupees and I told her that keep it it's okay you if if you don't if you don't get me back then it's completely alright I feel like at that time I just show I just see the relief on her face because you know having like having no money is very difficult to survive in this world
Band 5-6
So help help someone is one of the good sign of one one person. I also helped my colleague in my university who basically she find difficult to understand the topic taught by the faculty. So I usually make her understand by my own language and she really find this useful and I usually make notes during my class session. So I also share that note during my external examination. So the way the professor teach us and the way the other colleague teach us is a different is a diff there is a difference between them. So there is a difference between them. So we and we explain our colleague with our own piece of the knowledge. So they find she find a little bit clear and understand understand the topic well. So I usually explain her every topic before the examination and this this is the main reason she scored well in examinations and and she always appreciate this help and also after helping her I I always feel good and satisfied that with my help if she get scores if she got good scores then I also said this and I am also satisfied that this is a good way and I if I want to make career as a professor then it will then I will be a successful in that career. So this is one of the great time to help someone.
Band 5
Once a time when I travelled by a bus, I had my seat for a sit-down, but there is one lady, who had not find their seat for a sit-down, so she stand up and I look her, she is a very, she had some health issue and she is literally crying for not having seat, so I helped her and gave her seat for a sit-down and also gave some water for her, also gave some water to her for drinking and say her, please don't cry and she is very, very happy and stop her crying and say me, thank you, thank you very much for giving me seat and gave me many blessings for helping her, this incident very close to me and helping this aged lady, it feel very happy and happy moment for me and I am feel very blessed.
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