Describe An Important Decision You Made: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

It was 2019 when I had to take a very important decision in regards to my career. It was about changing my college and reapplying to a new college in India. I actually applied to the University of South Australia and I also got my offer letter and letter of acceptance. However, it was during COVID, so it was not reasonable to go to a different country, move there and start a life during that period because we all know what happened during COVID and how we all were suffering, so it was not convenient. So I had to take admission in India and I got admitted to university in Punjab. It was great, the decision made me choose a different course and it really helped me throughout my college life. I learned so much about management and technology because my course was Bachelor of Business Administration and Information Technology. Although I made this decision in my own terms, I would still think about it now and be happy that yes, it was a good decision and also very wise. I have now exposure to many things that I wasn't able to get through, but now I have understood the variety of work that is there in the corporate life and it has really helped me to take more wise decisions in the future and I'm very grateful about this decision that I made. Thank you.

When I was studying in 10th grade, I was supposed to select my track, either to choose a track for biology, which is for the doctors, or to pursue an engineering degree with a physics basic. I then decided for the physics group, but I was having a very less amount of score in my board exams, but I wasn't stressed. I wished to be some kind of a good engineer. Some other day, I used to cry, and every night, I used to feel for it. I was very depressed, and I wasn't me, but one fine day, I decided myself that I shouldn't cry, whatever may happen, I should be stronger, I should feel free, and I should stay strong, and I wanted to make my decision on my own. So that I made a right decision to choose my field, I started practicing each and every day with confidence. I enrolled me in a lot of activities. I got networking purposes, and I networked with a lot of people, and I learned so much, and now here I am doing my startup, and I am the founder of my startup, Mean Machine Automation, and I'm here speaking in front of a lot of people, and I am giving the suggestions to choose their own careers, and I feel free for them to address their pains, and I'm also feeling so proud.

We were really blessed nine years ago when I blessed with a girl child, her name is Kaira. After a few years of her birth, we decided to put her in school. Over that time we were a little confused between CBSE board and ICSE board. After making lots of enquiries, research on Google, asking suggestions from friends, we were still confused between the boards. My husband wanted to put my daughter in CBSE board. I was a little sceptical about CBSE board as it is more creative when you want to study only in India for competitive examinations. But my preference was to put her in ICSE board as it will give her more practical knowledge and more exposure towards her future journey as my biggest dream is to send her abroad. So I really wanted to put her in ICSE board. So because of that, eventually I decided to put her in ICSE board. After putting her for six years in the school, she is really doing fantastic in her academics. Teachers always appreciate her whenever I attend PTM and over that time I really feel blessed. Also, she is very much into music. She loves hip-hop music a lot. In the ICSE curriculum in her school, there are separate classes for hip-hop music. So she gets to learn.

I would like to talk about a time when I made this important decision of shifting back to India after completing my undergraduate studies in Malaysia. Since Malaysia is my hometown and my father wanted me to get settled there after my studies, I wanted to make a contrast decision to what my dad said of shifting back to India to pursue my higher studies or work and also to pursue my passion. So I decided to move because I wanted to pursue my passion in Indian classical dance. It was a really difficult decision, but at the end of the day, I felt really happy that I made this decision for myself because after coming here to India, I had a lot of opportunity to collaborate with other artists to learn and perform in many places around, making me feel grateful for the decision I made a few years back.

The most important decision that I took in my life was choosing up the internship opportunity that NRSC ISRO provided me with. I took up this decision when I was studying in my third year of my college, where I got an excellent opportunity to do an internship project with National Remote Sensing Center of Indian Space Research and Organization. So this was made around by the time of August month of 2023 and it is still going on now as a project scientist where I got promoted from intern project trainee to project scientist. So I made out this from my mind, I should work for a government organization at any cost whatever it takes. So first initially you should apply using an email id with all the college documents that you are provided with. Although I was having an less CGPA compared to all others from the college, I was having around 8.5 and where college average was up to 8.7. And I applied for with my friends and my cousins. Initially first my cousin got an internship offer where I applied before her and I was actually little feeling bad during that time. Later the third day I got a call from ISRO telling that I have been appointed as a project scientist of internship and I have been working under Mr. Syed Shadab for past one year. And it has been a very perfect time for me to work under him where I got to know a lot about technologies and also about personal development. When I got about the job, I felt very overwhelmed and very happy because it was the first time in job opportunity battling between more than 1000 people and getting an opportunity where NRSC provides only internship for 40 persons in a year of a term for a college student. Out of those 40, I was the one who got selected under Mr. Syed Shadab for the particular academic year of 2023 to 2024, again being appointed under him for the year 2024 to 2025.