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Read the Instructions Carefully

December 21, 2019 IELTS Research

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!!!

People studying for the IELTS test often answer “yes” when they’re are asked if they have read the instructions carefully in the listening part of the IELTS test. However, in the real-test situation, many people don’t – or at least don’t do it carefully.

As a result of not reading the instructions carefully enough, students could answer the questions correctly, but get band ‘0’ marks for a whole section of questions because their answers do not correspond to what they are being asked to do. This can reduce their IELTS scores by up to 2.5 bands.

A lot of the time, students look at the format of the questions and automatically assume that the instructions are going to be the same as what they have been previously used to – see the examples below.

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Phase 2 Tips : Speaking Test

December 20, 2019 IELTS Research

In Phase 2 of the speaking test. You are asked to make a presentation on a topic. It will always be something person, like talking about a holiday you went on. After the test, many candidates suggest they didn’t know about the topic which is why they couldn’t answer the question. Clearly, this can’t be the case. What they mean is they couldn’t answer the question because they couldn’t think of what to say. If this is the case for you, during the one minute you have to prepare, brainstorm your answer. For example, the assessor my ask you to talk about a holiday you really enjoyed. On you piece of paper, write down questions words:

Where?
When?
Why?
What?
Who with?
How?
Etc.

When you have asked the questions, answer them:

Where? Dehradun
When? last year
Why? celebrate end exams
What? climbed hills / water rafting
Who with? uni friends
How? bus from Delhi to Dehradun Etc.

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Picture Questions

December 19, 2019 IELTS Research

PICTURE QUESTIONS

When candidates see questions as pictures and not words, they often ‘go blank’ and don’t think logically about what they can see in the pictures.

This is simply because they are not expecting this kind of question and it is very easy to overcome.

Picture questions are often in section 1 of the listening test in the form of multiple-choice questions. Normally, you will see four pictures that have something in common and there will be a written question above the pictures. You have to listen to a conversation between (usually) two people and decide which picture answers to written question.

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IELTS Listening

Understanding IELTS Passage

December 18, 2019 IELTS Research

what the IELTS passage is about?

You need not to read the entire passage to answer the IELTS questions. Let us see if not by entirely reading it, how can we do it.

Understanding IELTS Passage

Reading passages are not only text, they also have other things included.

These things can be:

Titles
Paragraph headings
Sub-headings
Italicized or bold type
Pictures
Diagrams & other visual information
Tables & charts

We can use these things to help you to intelligently guess or “predict” what the passages are going to be about and what kind of information you might expect to find in them. You can do this even if you don’t really know anything about the topic because you will always find that you have some ideas about the topic and, even if those ideas may not be correct, they will help a lot in predicting.

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Near Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun

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