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IELTS Reading Skills If you want to improve your IELTS reading band score, you need to work on your general reading skills. These skills are 100% important in the IELTS reading paper. One of the most practical and effective ways to improve your score is to work on these skills separately. Try IELTS reading practice all time to time IELTS Reading Practice Overview Advice on understanding the 3specific reading skills: scanning, skimming and close reading the 3 skills of reading: the place to start to understand the basic skills you need to improve your band score Skimming/reading for general meaning Skimming is the ability to read a text quickly for general meaning. This is an IELTS reading skill that often gets ignored. Don’t make that mistake. There are certain question types where you must skim the text first if you want to get the answers efficiently. Do I need to read the whole text first in IELTS? – the quick answer is yes you should. Read this lesson for an exp...

How is your IELTS speaking test band score calculated? This is an important question for any IELTS candidate because many mistakes can be avoided by knowing what the examiner is looking for and how your speaking is graded. This post gives you a brief outline of the grading criteria, how band scores are calculated and how examiners typically grade the speaking. There are 4 grading criteria in IELTS Speaking Test: Fluency and coherence How fluently you speak and how well you link your ideas together Pronunciation How accurate your pronunciation is Lexical resource How accurate and varied your vocabulary is Grammatical range and accuracy How accurate and varied your grammar is What do these criteria mean? This is IELTS and IELTS examiners are trained to interpret these criteria in a particular way. In theory it should not matter where you take your test as all examiners grade consistently. I suggest you should spend time understanding the detail here as that way you can avoid m...

I think the pratical IELTS writing tips is very simple, simple for me, and sure it is also simple for you. I should add that these are mostly band score 8.0 IELTS writing tips and are written especially for candidates who are aiming high. The moral is: " the road to band score 8.0 often means doing the simple things well " 1. Read – write – read – write – read – write – read – write – read – write – read What does this mean? It means that you should go back and read the paragraph you have just written before you start the next one. You may think that this is a waste of time. If so, you’d be wrong. It’s important to link your paragraphs together – what more practical way to do that than just read what you have written? It helps you with words for the next paragraph – it is good to repeat some words as this improves your coherence. Look at my sample essay to see how I repeat/reflect language. In one paragraph I talk about the short term, this makes it easy to mo...

Every aspect of life, which is new for us, attracts our sensibilities. May it be a new cuisine, a new flavour, a new country or a new culture. This tendency of magnetism towards everything new is giving rise to a phenomenon of finding one’s foot in foreign nations. But not everyone gets a chance to fulfill their ambition, courtesy the competitive forces buzzing all over. The developed nations look out for the cream of the talent while considering foreign applicants for both jobs and migration to their countries. They, thus do that with the help of a qualifying exam, called IELTS. But we have IELTS IELTS, an acronym for International English Language Testing System is a two-pronged ability test, meant for: Aspiring students who are looking forward to admissions in universities and institutes of higher education, and doctors, nurses among other professionals who want to practice in English-speaking countries, and The other alternative is the general Training version which is...