Why Most IELTS Test Takers Score Below Band 6 - And How YOU Can Do Much Better
If you must take the IELTS test and this is your first time, or you have failed to reach your target score in IELTS before, please know this:
The latest official report from the IELTS Organization showed that test takers from the top 40 countries scored on average below Band 6 (in Academic and General Training tests).
At the same time most universities want you to score 7 or above - and most immigration laws require band 6.5 or higher.
But how can you beat the average? Is it possible?
Yes, it is definitely possible. You CAN beat the statistics and raise your score to Band 7, possibly Band 8 - or even Band 9.
IF you're willing to listen.
From: Simone Braverman, Founder of IELTS-Blog.com
Dear Friend,
Any successful IELTS test-taker knows that ...
... there is NO magic way of getting a great score in the exam.
Here is the formula: Your success depends on one thing only - the way you solve the tasks. The way you answer the questions and write your reports and essays. And people, who know the right way, get higher scores. But people who don't - score average or below.
It's really that simple.
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Between you and me, does this sound familiar?
You must get a high score in IELTS, and have no idea how to do it.
Writing a good essay is hard, because you don't have enough ideas and they take long to generate. By the time you have something to write about, there is not enough time left to finish your writing. You have trouble expressing your thoughts and the sentences come out just wrong.
Graphs are difficult to describe because you have trouble analysing them (well, you're not a scientist, are you?), and no matter how much you try, any report is taking longer than 20 minutes.
How do I know this? Because I've been there, too.
I know what it's like to always run out of time in the Reading test, because the passages are hard to understand and the questions are confusing. I know what it feels like to be a slow reader and always lose time, or concentration, especially if the texts are long.
I, too, felt the frustration of losing points on grammar, because there is no time to check your answers. I understand the desperation of not being able to achieve you target Band score, no matter what you do.
Just like you, I used to get nervous while speaking, worried about my grammar or pronunciation, and was desperately looking for the right word to say. You are not the only one whose English is often misunderstood by people, and who is convinced that unless there is someone to practice in speaking with, they will never get better.
It's not just you, whose mind goes blank when you need to speak on a topic for 2 minutes, who's left with no ideas what to say or with no words in their vocabulary.
And it's not just you who panics in the Listening section, when they go too fast, or speak with an accent, or because it's hard to concentrate and you're afraid to miss the answers.
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Reading 7.5
Writing 7.5
Speaking 7.5"
(Australia)
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(Myanmar)
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(Kazakhstan)
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Listening: 7.5
Reading: 6
Writing: 7.5
Speaking: 8"
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Writing: 8
Speaking: 8
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(United Kingdom)
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(Sri Lanka)
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So what's in the e-book?
There are four chapters that cover all the skills: Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking - everything that matters, everything that affects your score is explained in those chapters. There will be no surprises in your exam.
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OK, Simone, but what do I really learn?
The Writing Chapter
You will find out what Writing Task you should do first to maximize your score - Task 1 or Task 2 - and why it matters. This is something most people don't even think about, yet it works like magic.
You will learn about most common mistakes that many IELTS candidates make, which cause them to lose time and marks. These are the easiest points you will ever earn - because you will be earning them by NOT DOING things, and not doing is much easier than doing, isn't it?
Once you give the writing techniques you learned a try, you will become a confident writer, because you will prove to yourself that writing an essay on any topic and a report about any graph is not a problem for you any more.
You will be trained how to use psychological tricks to make your work look better, such as:
- what inc to write in (blue or black),
- whether you should indent your paragraphs or leave a blank line between them,
- what to do if you have an awful handwriting and
- how to count the number of words in your essay quickly to make sure it's long enough.
These are little things, but they add up and give you the result you want - a great score in Writing.
Writing Task 1
You will see beyond any doubt that you can be awful at Mathematics or Statistics and have zero analytical abilities - yet still be able to write a good report.
You will be walked through all the types of graphs used in IELTS and will be given examples for all of them. You will also get sample answers of all the types of graphs, charts, maps and tables.
You will learn to quickly analyse any graph you might get - a single line, a double line, a bar graph, a pie chart, a plan or a map, a table or a process diagram, how to spend less time analysing and more time writing.
You will understand how to structure your report and what to do if there's too much information - how to compact it and still get the report written in 20 minutes.
You will be taught how to write a grammatically correct report that uses the correct tenses, rich vocabulary and creates a good impression. There will be plenty of practice exercises for you to do.
You will find out exactly what your examiners consider a good report, why they would give you a certain score of and how you can get a better score.
Writing Task 2
You will find out that any essay topic you might get in IELTS belongs to one of 3 topic types, and how to write an essay on each topic type.
You'll get an explanation of the structure your essay should have to get a good score.
You will be taken step by step through the process of writing an essay. From the very beginning when you read the topic, to the classification - which type it belongs to, and then how to come up with ideas for contents to write quickly (in under 5 minutes), next how to make a quick plan and how to follow it, writing just the right amount of words.
You'll learn to write enough to get the score for words limit, but not too much - to avoid losing time on extra content that doesn't counts toward your score.
You will get a list of phrases to use in your essay to make it look good. That includes elegant ways to agree or disagree with a statement, to deny, to conclude, to compare or contrast.There will be plenty of practice, with the topics taken from recent real IELTS exams.
You will be able to prove to yourself that 40 minutes are enough to write an essay of 250 words on any topic they throw at you.
The Reading Chapter
Once you've learned the detailed test format, nothing will surprise you. You will be taught about all the 8 types of tasks you can get in IELTS, what you need to do in each, and what your answer should look like.
You will master time management and will always finish on time,thus leaving no questions unanswered and driving your score up.
You be trained to scan and find answers quickly - even if you're a slow reader. You'll learn what keywords are, how to find them and how they lead you to the answers.
The unwritten rules of where the answers are located in the passages will be revealed to you (and yes, there is a pattern!). You'll discover how passage layout - meaning the number of paragraphs - can help you find answers quickly and accurately.
You will know what to do when you're stuck on a task.
Concentration won't be a problem any more - you will know where to start in any kind of passage and will have a list of things to do, to keep you focused.
The True / False / Not Given questions will not confuse you; the answers will become crystal clear. You will have a strategy for Multiple choice questions and Gap-fill tasks. Headings matching tasks will no longer take a huge portion of your precious time.
You will be given the techniques for avoiding traps and for dealing with tricky questions. You will understand how making assumptions and over-thinking can harm your score, and how to stop doing it.
You will get links to online exercises to instil all the tips you've read in your mind forever.
You will even learn how to use your mistakes to your benefit - a very powerful technique, not known to most people.
The Speaking Chapter
You will learn about all the 3 parts of the Speaking test: Interview, Cue card and Discussion, what happens in each part, what kind of questions to expect and how long your answers should be. You will go through a list of sample questions and answers - to demonstrate what you need to aim for.
You will learn when to speak and when to stop, to allow the examiner to move on to the next question, so that he doesn't feel pressed for time.
You will get an exhaustive list of possible questions and topics that appeared in the past IELTS exams (and these topics repeat a lot!). All you need to do is to think of something to say on these topics, to make sure you have the vocabulary. This way you will never be in a situation when your examiner asks something and you're suddenly "speechless".
You will be taken step by step through a technique to develop your speaking skill - studying on your own, alone, all by yourself, without a teacher or a partner. It will help you succeed in becoming a better speaker even if you don't live in an English-speaking country, don't speak English at work or at uni - it doesn't matter that English is not your first language.
You will learn how to improve your pronunciation, for people to understand you better - which will give you more confidence in Speaking.
You will be given solution to all the possible nightmare situations when you miss a question, don't understand it or don't have anything to say about it. Failure will simply NOT be an option for you
The Listening Chapter
You'll learn what are the 9 types of task you can get in the Listening test, including what kind of answer you need to provide for every task type, how many words you should write, and whether you need to tick a box or circle the correct answer.
You will be given tips how to develop your listening skill that are proven to work - even if it's your weakest skill.
You will be trained to:
1. Avoid missing answers by keeping up with the recording, even when it goes fast.
2. Quickly recover when you've missed an answer - to avoid missing the following answers.
3. Ignore distractions and keep your focus.
You will be able to recognize clues to the answers and solve all types of tasks in the most time-saving way.
You will find out what kind of traps there might be, when synonyms or generalizations are used to confuse you, or when the speaker is taking back something that was just said.
There are tips how to use instructions in the booklet to avoid making mistakes that cost you marks.
You will learn how to guess efficiently, how to eliminate wrong answers and increase your chances of success by 20%.
You will know when and where spelling and grammar are important.
Even copying answers to the Answer Sheet will become an opportunity to increase your score because of the techniques you will learn.
Tools & Resources
NEW! A complete IELTS practice test is now part of the book (and you will get more tests as a free bonus!). The test includes Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking sections, a Listening recording and transcript showing the answers in sentences, a sample Speaking test recording with a transcript and an examiner's commentary explaining the estimated band score. The answers for the test include model responses for Writing Task 1 and Task 2.
You will get Pocket tips to bring with you on the day of your exam, to quickly go through all the important techniques and refresh everything that matters in your memory.
You will be given a 3-weekly step-by-step study plan to make sure all of your skills are in the best possible shape on the day of your exam. This study plan will help you make the most of your studying hours. No time will be wasted and you will be getting progress every day. No more procrastinating, wondering what skill to concentrate on or what task to practice - just follow the plan.
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