Hello everybody....
Hello to u too KNOK...
First of all, l did read all the threads posted in this section. I totally agree with knok's opinion, but let's stop at some points, which may be help us to take the right decession.
First of all, and from the MARKETING point of view, any institution, and l mean a big institution, will never ever continue a discontinued product in the time of producing a new one, as it'll effect the marketing situation of the new one.Second, ETS doesn't care about what we need, there's thousands of examinees they are taking a different tests other than TSE, and even iBT, we are just a small percent of the poeple dealing with them.
From the otherhand, as my personal experience, l did take the TSE 4 times, then l took the iBT, it's not harder but it's more academic, l failed again, so, l decide to go back to the TSE. (WHY)? for many reasons:
1- there's no Testmagic.com for iBT, which helps many poeple to get the magic number(50)
2 - if u get the passing score in the spoken part of iBT, and failed in another part, even by one point, you failed in the whole test. then beleive me l'll kill my self if l do so.loool:crazy:
NOW.... if we send the ETS asking for extention, then they agree, then we take it , may be w'll pass, and may be not,then we'll be abligated to take the iBT. And if they dont agree, also we'll be obligated to take but in earlier time, so why if we have a chance to pass TSE, as it's more familiar to us than iBT, even if this chance is 10%, l think it's enough to do so.
SO, let's make something, let's send them an email asking for the extention in USA and Canada, if it works, so we win, at least one time.
By the way, am going back to my country next month, so , l'll be allowed to taker TSE there in AUG,SEP,and OCT. but l want the poeple over the states to be like me.
Thank You to all of you.....................................