CQUniversity Melbourne - A Strong Impression

A one-week English course in CQUniversity Melbourne made a strong impression on me. No one believed that I studied a one-week English course before I started my degree program. However, it is true and was a memorable point of my study in Australia.

As many international students, our group of four students, including a Vietnamese and three Thais, had to study an English course to meet the entry requirements of CQUniversity. At that time (September 2009), we registered in GEOS - an English language centre in Melbourne. Unfortunately, GEOS folded a week before we could finish our English course. The collapse of GEOS was a shock to us. Without the English certificate from GEOS, we couldn’t register for a degree program in CQUniversity.

It was terrible for overseas students like us and we definitely didn’t know how to solve our problem. Following the suggestion from my aunty, who has been living in Melbourne for a long time, I sent an email to the director of CQUniversity Melbourne with a hope that CQUniversity would offer some help to us. Unbelievably, after four working days, the director himself replied with an email to me. In that email, he noted that CQUniversity would offer a one-week English course without any fee for us. After that, depending on our results in English final test, we could go through to Semester One. Happily, with this special offer from CQUniversity Melbourne, we could confidently continue our studies in Melbourne.

The one-week English course was very exciting for us. We studied with an experienced teacher, and we revised our vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and writing. Moreover, she taught us many effective methods to study, such as how to find academic journals for our research and utilise many services in CQUniversity effectively. That information was very helpful. It gave us more confidence to begin our first semester in CQUniversity.

It could be said that after the one-week English course, we received lots of useful information and was ready for our first semester. The director, the English teachers and the staff at CQUniversity Melbourne made a strong impression to me. As a student who is studying in CQUniversity, I think I made the right choice in choosing CQUniversity for my studies in Melbourne.