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IELTS Results competition winners in March 2022

Nelson Mandela famously said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done”, and if you’re wondering what his words have to do with this blog post, keep reading 🙂

Does Band 9 in any of the IELTS skills seem impossible? It’s not – in fact, six out of eight winners whom we are about to introduce got Band 9 in either Reading or Listening – or both!

Let’s put our hands together for…

IELTS results competition winners of March 2022

Academic Module

  • 1st place – Shokhrukhmirzo Jumanyazov from Uzbekistan, Band 8.5
  • 1st place – Nomathamsanqa Mthombeni from Zimbabve, Band 8.5
  • 2nd place – Dmitrii Kiselev from the Russian Federation, Band 8
  • 2nd place – Reza Zaeri from Iran, Band 8
  • 2nd place – Ahamed Imthikab Ahamed Ilyas from Sri Lanka, Band 8
  • 3rd place – Nalisha Shrestha from Nepal, Band 7

General Training Module

  • 1st place – Sahid Sarkar from India, Band 7.5
  • 2nd place – Prakash Bhagwan Sharma from India, Band 6.5

Congratulations to the winners! To mark this happy occasion we are sending certificates of achievement to the winners’ email addresses. Winning IELTS results will also be displayed in the IELTS-Blog hall of fame – so if you won, please feel free to show them off to your friends!

How did they score so well?

We’re always trying to find out from the winners how they did it. It’s great to see our students winning! Reza Zaeri (Band 8) used our writing correction service to find out how to increase his score. Dmitrii Kiselev (Band 8) relied on our book Target Band 7 to learn important IELTS techniques and then used several ‘High Scorer’s Choice’ practice tests to apply those techniques and master the skills he learned. Being able to contribute to their success feels amazing!

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.

IELTS Speaking: why a little confidence goes a long way

When people discuss ways to do well in IELTS, you often hear about techniques that may help, exercises that develop certain skills, etc. However, when when we asked Shiva, a native Nepali speaker who got an Overall Band 7.5 in IELTS with an amazing 8.5 in Speaking, he said there was one other, simple but very important, ingredient to his success. Can you guess what it is?

Let’s hear it from Shiva:

“First of all, I’d like to wholeheartedly thank you for giving me an opportunity to share my thoughts on your valuable platform. Needless to say, IELTS-Blog.com was a must-go site for me to improve and accelerate my language skills. On top of that, I used to practise the questions from across the world you put on the website. Writing essays and getting them corrected by your experts was a really helpful tool for improving my grammar.

I feel it is important to advise all the test takers to have faith in themselves and believe that they definitely know the language. Remember that the way you present it might make it look different. In your speaking test, just think of the leaders of non-English speaking nations who have to speak in International Assemblies, even if they don’t know English well. I used to think in my speaking test of the Prime Minister of Nepal whose English is poorer than mine, but who still delivered speeches in front of global leaders and media because he knows he has to speak! So, if your prime minister doesn’t lose confidence despite not knowing English well, why should you? Don’t worry about your accents and mistakes, but speak confidently on the speaking test.”