Describe a Good Decision You Made Recently- IELTS Cue Card

Sample Answer

Decisions can either make or mar one’s life or at least a phase of one’s life. I have taken a lot of decisions that were either propitious to my life or were pernicious to it. However, one decision that I believe has contoured and streamlined my life significantly to sail through the inhibitions and impediments that I once encountered in life was to break all the ties from every iniquitous or negative people that I once bore in my life.

At times, devious and conniving people tend to plot against you with a Janus-faced. You tend to get puzzled owing to their abilities to enshroud their true soul. I have had a couple of people in my life who I thought were my friends. Regardless, once I realised that the people around me were pretentious and phoney, I decided to extirpate them. It happened during my college days after I had a few heartbreaking experiences.

Initially, calling upon that decision was never easy as it takes a lot of guts to collect the enthusiasm to gush the truth out and directly take up a call. However, once I started keeping all of them aside, life became more effortless and without complications and hassles.

I believe one must not waste one’s time figuring out a way to avoid an unwarranted situation. Instead, one should uproot them at once as such people or entities are not indispensable and are rather minacious to one’s life and well being. My life became relatively easy and I could focus more upon the things that matter in all aspects of life. I am glad I took that decision and will continue to follow the same practice as I genuinely believe our life is too short to be wasted on the negativities and wicked entities.

Vocabulary

• Propitious

Meaning: favourable
Eg.: Your parents are happy that the decision you took was propitious to your life.

• Contour

Meaning: shape
Eg.: The contour of this bird helps it to soar higher.

• Puzzled

Meaning: confused.
Eg.: I was extremely puzzled after knowing that I had been appointed as a captain.

• Connived

Meaning: planning against someone
Eg.: They connived against Julius Caesar and murdered him.

• Minacious

Meaning: problematic
Eg.: This hooliganism and rude behaviour are minacious.

Part 3 Questions

What decisions do people make every day?

People make innumerable personal as well as professional decisions every day, including what to buy, choosing which attire to carry, choosing which meal to have during the day, which tasks to focus on etc.

Why do people make decisions?

Making decisions is inexorable and inevitable to one’s life and hence making decisions is the very fundamental attribute of human beings. After all, we are the organisms of the complex nervous system.

Can children take decisions on their own?

Yes, children can make their own decisions. However, the possibility of making a wrong turn is fairly high among children. Given that the children are ingenuous and naive, their perspicacity and intellect is always a concern.

When do people change their decision?

People tend to change their decisions when they realise that the ones that they took prior didn’t substantiate into something fruitful and conducive.

Vocabulary

• Innumerable

Meaning: many in number.
Eg.: There are innumerable examples where determination guided the destiny of a warrior.

• Inexorable

Meaning: inevitable
Eg.: Eating and breathing are inexorable to survival.

• Attribute

Meaning: quality
Eg.: Attributes of a human being come before the stature.

• Ingenuous

Meaning: innocent
Eg.: Since I was ingenuous, I took this silly call.

• Squandered

Meaning: wasted
Eg.: You should not squander your money and should instead save it.