I've been using English on a daily basis for the past 9 years and I graduated from a Canadian university as well. I took IELTS GT for the first time last Friday and my results came back this morning:
L 8.5
R 7.5
W 6.5
S 8.5
Overall: 8
I'm super frustrated with the writing score because I had always been good at writing in school. I did over 20 practice topics in the span of a month. I watched E2 Language videos and spent days reading IELTS Liz too. I thought if anything I'd at least get a 7. My partner is a native speaker and I got him to review all my essays, usually the only mistakes he could find were a few punctuation problems, which I'm aware of as well.
I really thought I'd at least get a 7 to be honest. My question is, should I apply for a re-evaluation? I've been following the thread and it seems the chance of getting 6.5 to 7 is quite good. Should I go for it? I still have time to wait for now and I can still retake the test, but I wanna see what you guys would think of my situation. Thank you!