It was one month before I decided to take CCL online learning with Bingo Learning in preparation for my CCL test. I was nervous because the course was fully taught in mandarin. Being the only English (as first language) speaker in the online class, I found it hard to keep up with the class initially. 

However, after a few lessons in I began to pick up the pace all thanks to Andrea and Bingo for being patient with me and helping me after classes. Also because every lesson was recorded, I could conveniently review the recordings every time after the lesson ended. 

Knowing that my weakness was in short term memory and note taking, I had to put in extra effort to practice them for about 1 hour everyday after work. I also didn’t do well for the mock tests but I didn’t give up. 

My advice is to focus on note taking and working on short term memory first before anything else (memorising the given glossary)  because they’re the most crucial components of the dialogues. If I had to quantify it, I would say 80-90%. 

I am thankful that I managed to pass my test at my first attempt with only one month or less of practice. If I can do it, so can you. All the best!