To all the international students whose first language is not English: have you already done the IELTS exam? Because I did it last June and my overall score was 7.5 with only 6.5 in writing. I'm starting to think that it wasn't a good idea to mention that in my application because LSE sounds very strict on this! Maybe I should have just said that I was going to do another similar exam later this year. Do you think I will be largely penalised because I didn't meet the exact requirement? And how are you coping with your IELTS? Have you already done that?