Listening at a glance
The Listening test consists of 4 sections. There are about 38-40 questions in total. You need to answer all the questions as you listen to the tape. Tape is not paused at any time and you hear it only once. The questions get more difficult as you progress through the test.
Are you scared yet? Don’t be! There is a technique to get you through it - I will tell you all about it in the following posts. By the way, it is important that you spell correctly all of your Listening answers, not just the words they spell for you on the tape. Also, make sure that your answers are readable and understandable, when you copy them to the Answering Sheet. You may write in pencil only.
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As you told don’t scared, but I have to man. Like, I am able to score between 23 to 27 out of 40. I am able to correct answer in choices like A,B,C or D. But the toughest part of listening is writting words in blanks. Is there any tricks to crack listening part. And also let me how many marks we need for reading and writting to get 7 bands. I heard that, 27 out of 40 means, 7 bands. Please advice me..
Comment by davekrunal46 — March 18, 2006 @ 1:47 am
No one knows for sure how they calculate the band score (and if someone says he does ? it?s a lie), but we do have some hints.
First, the official IELTS site has some tables and formulas, here is the link.
Basically they say that 30 correct answers in Listening and Academic Reading give you Band Score 7, and in General Training Reading you need 34 correct answers to get Band Score 7.
Their rules of rounding are as follows:
1) If you get score from 6 to 6.24, they round it to 6.
2) If you get score from 6.25 to 6.49 they round it to 6.5
3) If you get score from 6.5 to 6.74 they round it to 6.5
4) If you get score from 6.75 to 6.99 they round it to 7
Now about more listening tips ? there are really great ones in “Ace The IELTS” e-Book .I don?t just recommend it because I sell this book (the profits from sales are used to improve IELTS-blog), but I really believe that it can help you a lot to improve your IELTS score. Those techniques have helped a lot of my students. The book has 66 pages filled with IELTS tips and it is impossible to squeeze all that in just one post. I will try though to add more Listening tips in my future posts, thanks for the feedback, man!
Comment by admin — March 18, 2006 @ 8:36 am
The book is just GREAT !
It is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot.
Comment by zvikasan — March 26, 2006 @ 7:58 am