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IELTS Test Results competition

IELTS Results competition winners in January 2012

Today I am excited to announce the 10 winners who achieved the best IELTS results in January. Their hard work finally paid off! Without any further introduction I give you the people who opened 2012 with a bang:

Academic Module – 1st place Band 8 in IELTS

  • Griselda Susanto from Indonesia, Band 8.5

Academic Module – 2nd place

  • Hardik Shah from India, Band 8
  • Muhammad Irfan from Pakistan, Band 8

Academic Module – 3rd place

  • Dorothy Ann Espinosa from the Philippines, Band 7.5
  • Trang Nguyen from Vietnam, Band 7.5
  • Ankita Rao Yatirajyam from India, Band 7.5
  • Kailaash Balachandran from India, Band 7.5

General Training Module – 1st place

  • Mary Sofia Susai from India, Band 8

General Training Module – 2nd place

  • Qaiser Rafiq from Pakistan, Band 7.5

General Training Module – 3rd place

  • Roxanne Rombaoa from the Philippines, Band 7

On behalf of the whole IELTS-Blog team I would like to congratulate the winners. You all have done a great job, and your success is a source of motivation for many other candidates, going through their IELTS books right now.

According to our tradition, the winners’ special certificates are being sent to their emails, and their names are joining the IELTS-Blog hall of fame.

If you’re wondering how these people were able to score so well, so do we. That’s why we are hoping the winners will write back and share their methods of preparation, tips and advice.

Dear winners – don’t be shy, please reply and we promise to share your tips with the whole world.

P.S. Our competition runs every month, and everyone is welcome to participate. Learn how to enroll here.

Ideas for a higher score from successful test takers

As we all know, learning from other people’s experience is a very effective technique, and here is your opportunity to find out how Giulia (from Italy) and Ahmed (from Bangladesh) were able to get Band 7.5 in their IELTS exams. As winners of our ‘Best IELTS result’ competition, Giulia and Ahmed were asked to share their advice. Here it is:

Giulia said:

“I would suggest to all the IELTS candidates to improve most of all their abilities in time management, because I think that it’s very difficult is to do your best, especially in the writing part, in such a short time. In order to do that it is useful to do as much exercise as possible keeping an eye on the watch. For the writing part, I found it very helpful to learn a list of linking expressions to use in every situation and some synonyms for the most common words, since they make the text look more fluent.

During the speaking, improvising is better than keeping silent. And, I know it might look obvious, but still it’s important to live the English language day by day, reading newspapers and talking with native speakers.

Last, but not least, it’s fundamental not to panic!”

Ahmed said:

“I was not born in a native English speaking country. However, I have effectively used specific techniques in order to get better at my English skills. I have been always trying to implement any particular technique in each of the 4 modules before the exam. For example, I have practiced the “Mind Mapping” technique in both Speaking and Writing modules.

Other activities such as listening to music and the news regularly in English have increased my lexical resources. I believe my biggest strength is in writing, as everyone has their own. I have always tried to pretend that I’m writing something even when practicing for a different module. I always recorded my speaking and tried to listen to it later to check for errors.

IELTS-Blog has also provided me with the latest questions from different countries, which enriched my knowledge too. I would sometimes write down the lyrics of a song just to check how am I doing with my English Listening. Scanning, Skimming, Analyzing, Identifying specific information have been the main keys for my Reading.

All in all, I encourage each and every one out there planning to sit the IELTS exam to make an organized effort and to understand the format of the test.”