04/11/2024
"Never trust a man in a suit" - that advice that an old lawyer I worked with gave me.
And it's advice that has stuck with me to this day, even when it comes to improving IELTS scores for my students.
When I started working as a young lawyer, I was shocked that my colleagues hardly ever wore suits.
Even many successful clients who ran billion-dollar companies didn't wear suits all the time.
The old lawyer I worked with explained that the only lawyers and businessmen who wore suits constantly were the bad ones pretending to be good.
This pattern held true when I later became an English teacher. I observed that the schools that hired the worst teachers and paid the least money were the ones that insisted that their teachers wear suits.
On the other hand, the best schools didn't have such strict dress codes.
In essence, people use fancy clothing to trick others into thinking they're better than they really are.
The same thing happens in IELTS - some test-takers try to use fancy language to impress the examiner, but like the old lawyer, examiners can see through the tricks.
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