...Discovery of Uranus Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel on March 13, 1781. His phenomenal detection was unintentional, just like most of today’s most famous discoveries. Herschel was looking for stars in his telescope and came across a blurry object that he assumed to be a comet. After a few nights of observation, it became apparent to Herschel that although the object was moving along with the background stars, its acceleration was way too slow to be classified as a comet. After many calculations, and years of study, he then concluded that this object was in fact a planet. This planet was further away from the sun than any other known planets, and was the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. (Uranus is the 7th planet...
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...Introduction HOW SHOULD YOU INTERPRET YOUR SCORES? In the Answer key at the end of the each set of Listening and Reading answers you will find a chart which will help you assess if, on the basis of your practice test results, you are ready to take the IELTS exam. In interpreting your score, there are a number of points you should bear in mind. Your performance in the real IELTS test will be reported in two ways: there will be a Band Score from 1 to 9 for each of the modules and an Overall Band Score from 1 to 9, which is the average of your scores in the four modules. However, institutions considering your application are advised to look at both the Overall Band and the Bands for each module. They do this in order to see if you have the language skills needed for a particular course of study. For example, if your course has a lot of reading and writing, but no lectures, listening comprehension might be less important and a score of 5 in Listening might be acceptable if the Overall Band Score was 7. However, for a course where there are lots of lectures and spoken instructions, a score of 5 in Listening might be unacceptable even though the Overall Band Score was 7. Once you have marked your papers you should have some idea of whether your Listening and Reading skills are good enough for you to try the real IELTS test. If you did well enough in one module but not in others, you will have to decide for yourself whether you are ready to take the proper test yet...
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