What's up with Hatim?

I happened to give my IELTS speaking test today. It happened in one of the various Motels on club road in Islamabad. There were atleast a dozen people over there along with me for their tests. It seems alot of people are planning to go for higher education and employment opportunities in first world countires (where IELTS is a very basic requirement). I think the test was easy, although I probably could have answered few questions slightly better. But this has nothing to do with my english speaking skils. It's because of my crazy thought patttern when I am speaking on general topics ;)

Today I recieved my IELTS results, and I was astonished to see how I had performed. I was expectin an overall score of 8, where as I got a 7. The most surprising result was of my speaking test , 6.5/9.0. Apparently my english is more sound in familiar situation and my communication may cause misunderstandings in some scenarios (according to IELTS band ratings). I think I need to bush up on my sentence structure. Effective communication skills teach that content of a sentence is more important than in which accent it is delivered (provided one does not just butcher the language with a thick accent). I also need to make my accent more neutral, because people who are used to british accent may find it hard to understand my slightly mid western american accent (which I picked up while my stay in Nebraska). Let me add one more goal to 43 things, ie speak flawless english.