CF INDIA PORTAL: How we can help you with your IELTS
preparation in 2013
As well as continuing to offer our online IELTS tutoring, in January we’ll be launching
the first of our IELTS downloads and e-books on IELTS Writing to help you with
your IELTS preparation in 2013.
The IELTS downloads will include the most common types of IELTS
Academic and IELTS General Training Writing question and some tips for the
IELTS Writing test.
The IELTS e-books will include sample answers and exercises to
help you understand how to answer IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training
Writing tasks.
We’ll post an update on our blog when they are ready for you to
download.
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Consult
with your nearest British Council, as they will provide you many helpful
materials for taking the test, or you may like to join the British council to
have practice classes for the test.
Start
reading newspapers, journals, and articles and you should be well informed
about the current issues for the speaking and writing topics.
Listen to BBC and CNN, or watch British movies and shows. Spend 30 minutes
on listening to the BBC news every day if you are not a native speaker.
Choose a
realistic and achievable goal. To obtain a satisfactory
IELTS Band Score, it is necessary to be realistic. If the goal is to reach a
certain level of English proficiency, success can only be achieved with enough
skill and dedication. It is important to know what an IELTS score in any of the
Sub-tests means before you set yourself a goal.
Practice,
practice, practice. Set aside the maximum number of hours you can spare each day
to practice English for all four Subtests. Do not concentrate only on your
weakest areas. Be regular in your practice, and give yourself a rest between tasks.
Take at least one day out of your week to rest and forget the test completely.
The secret of success is to work towards your goal slowly, steadily and
regularly
Increase
your personal speed. In the IELTS test, time is your enemy. Candidates who have taken
the test and did not perform as well as they had hoped often complain that they
were unable to give all the answers in the Listening Test because the tape was
too fast, and that they ran out of time in the Reading Test. To begin with, do
not worry if you do not finish the tests. Remember, the test is designed to
measure candidates over a range of scores from 0 to 9 (0 indicates the test was
not attempted). Candidates whose English is near perfect can expect to score 9,
but even native English-speaking people would be unlikely to complete every
Listening Test answer perfectly or finish the Reading Test a long time before
the examination ends.
The Listening, Reading, and Writing Tests are given in that
order, and are usually held on a single morning. The combined length of those
three tests is 2 hours and 30 minutes. (The Speaking Test is conducted at an
appointed time in the afternoon.) Only one short break is given between the
Reading and Writing Tests, so you need to be at your best for a long period of
time, which is why you must sleep and eat well before the test. The hints and
guidelines in this article should help you achieve your "maximum
speed". The more effort you put in, the faster your personal speed will be
on the day.
Develop a memory for English. In the Reading Test, it
pays to remember as much as you can of what you have just read, but at least
the words can be read again. However, in the Listening Test you cannot go back,
and the tape is only played once. If the answer comes before the keyword/phrase,
your memory of what you have just heard is even more important. Nevertheless,
the answer usually follows the keywords/phrases that you hear, and is close in
time to the main keyword/phrase you are listening for.
Tips
·
Try to speak in English
at home with your parents or friends
·
Set your
goals. If you want to take the test within three
months then be consistent to your practice lessons .three months of practicing
for IELTS is good.
·
Try to speak in front of mirror if you are shy too speak. This
will help you or you may ask your teacher to help you.
Warnings
·
DO NOT try to mix it with Studyfor the TOEFL, though they are English language tests, but they are actually
different.
·
Avoid accents or slang (use academic vocabulary)
·
Do not leave your lessons for future or leave it to your
teacher. Always remember it is you who are going to study abroad and you will
have to pass the test.
·
Joining a class & turning to an expert is a smarter way to
ace the IELTS.
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Avoid contractions & short forms of words.
·
Get ready for any accent & variation of English (American,
British, Australian, etc.)
·
IELTS is all about accuracy. Test checkers will penalize any and
every grammatical / punctuation mistake they come across.
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