True regarding the listening midterm during semester 1. Students who had been doing pretty well with the listening exercises + vocabulary in the textbooks were suddenly given a week of 'prep classes' for the mid term IELTS test-as if this could in any way prepare them for the actual IELTS exam-which most of them understandably achieved very low scores in. Of course these low scores had to be 'artificially inflated' by the teaching staff to fall within the 75-84% required level that all students must attain. More ridiculous work. The question here is 'why' are all these students suddenly exposed to a difficult IELTS test halfway through a semester? A test that is totally unrelated to, and way above the level of English that they have been studying up to that point!