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The lessons Saroj learnt on his IELTS journey to Band 7.5

You may remember Saroj as one of our IELTS Results competition winners, whose success we celebrated earlier this month. Saroj is a young man from Nepal who recently took an Academic IELTS test and got Band 7.5.

According to our tradition, Saroj was invited to share his experience preparing for the test, and you will find that the lessons he learnt in his preparation for IELTS can be useful to anyone studying for the test. Bonus tip: take note of the things he skipped but wished he had done, because YOU still have time to include them in your preparation sessions!

“I am writing to thank you for this website which has helped me immensely in my preparation for IELTS academic test which I have just completed and haven gotten back the results. Honestly, I used free resources from your website and others, and am genuinely in disbelief still that I did well.

Basically, the way I prepared was to practice the materials available on the website as much as possible. For writing, I would try to actually write an essay before reading the sample answer for that essay question or at least to have brainstormed ideas prior.

For reading, I would read through the questions first before actually reading the passages, in anticipation of the possible matching of the themes of the passage to a question.

I honestly feel I was inadequately prepared for the speaking section as I did not prepare for it much, but speaking out loud my answers prior to looking at the answers would be helpful.

The same strategy for the writing task 1 so generally, practising and testing ourselves prior to looking at the answers as compared to simply looking at the model answers would definitely make a difference. I suppose practising under time constraints would have helped me further in my preparation.”

Thank you very much, Saroj, for sharing your advice, and we wish you only the very best!


Best IELTS test result September 2022

IELTS Results competition winners in September 2022

Confucius, a famous Chinese philosopher and teacher, once said, “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

Going by his words, the 6 people we are celebrating today are certainly moving in the right direction!

Let’s give a round of applause to …

IELTS results competition winners of September 2022

Academic Module

  • 1st place – Ali Taheri from Iran, Band 8.5
  • 2nd place – Amanda Thompson Agaba from USA, Band 7.5
  • 2nd place – Saroj Thapa Magar from Nepal, Band 7.5
  • 3rd place – Flaminia Amatucci from Italy, Band 7
  • 3rd place – Darshit Mukeshbhai Soneji from India, Band 7

General Training Module

  • 1st place – Thembekile Ncube from Zimbabwe, Band 7.5

What a bunch of jaw-dropping scores! To mark this happy occasion we are sending our winners their certificates of achievement via email. We are also adding the winning IELTS results to the IELTS-Blog hall of fame – so please feel free to show them off to your friends!

How did they score so well?

It feels amazing to see our students win!

Band 7 in IELTSAmanda used the book Target Band 7 and our writing correction service. After the test she wrote and said,
“I am excited to tell you that I took the test – and got Band 7.5 Overall, with 8.0 in Listening, Reading, and 7.5 in writing, which I practiced with you.”

Darshit relied on the book Ace the IELTS for his preparation. He said, “I am glad to announce that I got a 7 band in IELTS. I gave the exam on 27th August and I was very excited about it. The daily blogs and the questions of writing and speaking from all over the world from IELTS-Blog.com helped me a lot during my preparation. The book Ace the IELTS guided me through each and every single step to achieve a higher band score in the exam.”

Flaminia solved many High Scorer’s Choice practice tests while preparing for her exam. She said, “I am absolutely grateful for the support given by Simone Braverman and her effective platform IELTS-Blog.com. The website mentioned helped me a lot to understand my weaknesses, practicing on them. What I liked the most was the fact that I had the opportunity to evaluate my possible IELTS score, in order to be more prepared for the future examiner’s evaluation. I spent a lot of time exercising on the four parts of the test, and thanks to IELTS-Blog.com and its amazing books, I had the opportunity to vividly see my progresses, finally achieving an Overall Band Score of 7.”

As for the other winners – we would love to hear from you, because when you share your stories and tell us how you studied, you are helping thousands of test takers, preparing for their exams right now. Any useful tips will be posted on IELTS-Blog.com, so everyone can use the same technique and get a better score in their own exam this month.

Did you know? IELTS results competition runs every month, and everyone is welcome to participate. Learn how to enroll here.