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Why is IELTS Preparation So Difficult?

Quite simply, there is so much information out there and students do not know which sources they can trust. IELTS can take months (sometimes years!) of hard work and thousands of dollars in tuition and test fees, so there is a lot of pressure to get it right first time.
There are three main things you need to improve:
  1. General level of English (Slow)
  2. Test skills (Medium)
  3. Knowing how the test is marked (Fast)

General Level of English

IELTS is essentially an English language test, therefore, the higher your level of English, the better your score should be. Simply studying IELTS skills and doing practice tests will not be enough if your level of English is not high enough.
As indicated above, this is probably the slowest part of IELTS preparation. Most English schools recommend at least 6 months to improve a student’s level of English by the equivalent of 0.5- 1 band score.
I will show you how you can improve your general level of English, at home, below.

Test Skills

There are four parts to the IELTS test- Writing, Speaking, Reading and Listening. Each of these parts has many different possible questions and each of them has a specific skill that you need to acquire.
For example, academic students can expect to see one of seven different types of question in Task 1 Writing. Each of these different types of question requires differing skills.
The Listening and Reading tests have over 10 different types of questions each. Again, all of these questions requires a different strategy and set of skills.
The majority of your IELTS preparation should be spent learning these skills and when these are combined with a high level of English it should result in a high score.
Learning these skills does not take as much time as learning the language itself, but does take a significant amount of time. Most schools recommend spending 2-3 months learning these skills.
I will address how to improve these, at home, below.

Knowing How the Test is Marked

The fastest and most effective way to improve your score is knowing exactly what the examiners want and giving it to them. Most of my teachings are based on this principal.
However, you can’t simply learn this and get a high score; they should be combined with improving your level of English and test skills.
Below we will look at the official marking criteria to help us understand what the examiner want.
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