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Reflective Essay On Self Assessment

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I want to start my self- assessment doing something different . So this time I would like to start with two famous quotations of my favorite writer Paulo Coelho that always makes me feel enthusiastic. "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." — Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) Well I will focus my self- assessment on an overall view of the semester and then I will reflect deeply on each subject in concrete. We are already at the end of the 2016 first semester. Even though I think that it has not been the best semester, I still consider that I have learned a ton of useful information …show more content…

I could not follow it . So I was practically lost and it made me feel so disappointed about myself because the last year I did not have a bad performance on this matter . Listening : To be honest, listening is not my best skill and I am really conscious about that . I always try to practice a lot and it was reflect in some of test that I did but the most difficult thing for me was the change from PET listening test to FCE listening test because of course the difficulty is higher than PET. Nevertheless, I have continued practicing and I have improved many items of FCE listening test. Reading : It was quite ok . I did not have bad grades and my performance was ok but I know I could do better than I did . So I will try to make it better for the next semester . Phonetic : I think I did good but not as good as I wanted . I have to confess that I still have some problems with the weak forms . I know the theory but actually when I have to apply this on my speech , sincerely it confused me a lot , but I am sure that I will do better next time because practice makes better

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