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Top 10 IELTS Misconceptions That Stop People Getting a High Score

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Top 10 IELTS Misconceptions That Stop People Getting a High Score There are following misconceptions about IELTS which may stop people getting a high score 1. There is one correct answer in the speaking test Many students I talk to think the speaking test is more like mathematics than English. In reality, there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to content. The examiner is judging you on four areas and four areas only. They are: ·        Fluency and coherence ·        Lexical resource ·        Grammatical range and accuracy ·        Pronunciation ·        Five different students could give five different answers to a question and they all can get a high score. ·        Many school systems teach their students from a young age that there is one way to answer a question and one answer only. This is not the case in the IELTS Speaking or Writing test and there are many ‘correct’ answers. 2.     The examiner must agree with my opinion  IELTS is not a know

Five Reasons Why Students Fail The IELTS Exam

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Five Reasons Why Students Fail The IELTS Exam Number 1 - You booked your exam, but you were not ready.  One of the main reasons students fail their exam is that they book their exam even though they are literally not ready. Especially students who have never taken the exam before. We call this the car crash scenario. They take the exam in a month's time - have little knowledge about the requirements or the exam, don't get the score they need and decide never to take it again. The reason this is called the car crash scenario is the following: When you learn to drive a car you really wouldn't dream of taking your test before you could drive or you may crash the car. Furthermore, your instructor really wouldn't recommend you take it if you weren't ready, as you will damage their car, which they rely on to teach others and give lessons to. We live in a very fast paced society and everyone wants quick service and quick results without paying a lot of

IELTS Listening: advice for section 4

IELTS Listening: advice for section 4 In this section, almost all the times, you find sentence completion type of questions. However, you may sometimes find some MCQs as well. In this section, you are going to listen to a monologue i.e. you will hear only one speaker talking about a topic, similar to section 2. But here, you will find that the monologue is about an academic context, for example, the speaker may be delivering a lecture in a university or college. Let us discuss how to crack section 4 of IELTS Listening with the help of sentence completion question: Recycling of Waste Material 1.     By the year 2020, emissions of carbon dioxide are expected to ……………….reduced than 2000. 2.     Recycling of wastes can be helpful to reduce the emissions from………………and………………… 3.    According to some people, one major problem is insufficient amount of……………………………… You can see from the above questions that these are some notes about the topic “recycling of waste material”. I