IELTS Exam Experiences and Details

I got my results yesterday.
Listening: 8.5
Reading: 9
Writing: 8
Speaking: 8.5
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Overall: 8.5

If you are confident and you have taken the exam before then you should be good, I was a little Nervous before the exam not because it is difficult but to try and get the highest band.

I think Venkata provided some amazing tips which are more detailed than mine.

My preparation was mainly through Youtube videos and I only prepared for 1 day, maybe If i had concentrated a bit more on writing , could have scored a little higher in that band.

Resources: These are videos I watched before the exam.

Speaking: Mainly Manjita

Writing: IELTS liz and others

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CpBHKj_hcQ&t=808s

Listening - There are more from the same company, can navigate

Assessment Criteria

Mistakes:

Writing:
I like to jot my ideas down before writing a letter or an essay, I would strongly suggest not to spend time in doing this for more than 5 mins. I wasted time and had to rush both my tasks in 20 mins. If the handwriting is not legible it is easy to lose marks.

Speaking:

Usage of casual english once In my sentence , i.e. Kids

Listening:

When it is silent, it is very easy for the mind to wander. Please keep taking notes or writing the answer down as the conversation is going. I missed 1 or 2 that way.

Reading: Not mistakes but tips

I underlined all the key words/sentences when i skimmed through the passages, this helped me a lot. Eg: There was an essay about how glass originated and who popularized it.
First Paragraph talked about romans - underlined key words and wrote romans beside the paragraph. I did the same for other paragraphs as a cue and this helped a lot When I was going through the questions.

I hope this information will help in some way, thanks to others who posted their experiences it definitely guided me in the right path.

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