Name: Episode 22 - Vita scores band 8 with only a week of IELTS prep!
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T08:01:45.000Z
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Cast Episode 22 You listening to Ayotte's cast the podcast to put you in touch with successful isles candidates from around the world, listening land as they explain how the achieved band 78 and even nine.

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Now use your host, Ryan Hello and welcome to Isles Cast.

My name is Ryan, and today I'm speaking with Vita and Isles students from Russia from Moscow, Russia, who took the exam recently in Moscow and scored an overall band of eight with Band 8.5 and listing bands nine in Reading Perfect Bennett Band eight and writing and banned seven in speaking.

And Vida's been kind enough to share a bit of time with us today and explain how she did it.

And in her email to me, she she also iterated that she prepared for the outs within a week within one week.

Thanks again for, uh, giving me this possibility to share my experience, and I hope it might be useful for other students with the same experience I have.

Well, probably for just of interest for everyone else.

You you say that you prepared within a week?

Do you want to tell us a bit more about that?

Actually, I learned that I needed Thio pass a total or isles.

So the only possibility Thio pass some exam wars in a week after I learned that I needed to do it.

So I asked my friends if anyone had passed exam recently.

And I remember my friend who did it probably a year ago, and she also didn't have much time for preparation, so But she passed it Okay, too.

So I thought that I might be a good decision for me, so I started my preparation.

So So basically you Your reasoning for choosing the Isles was simply because you spoke to somebody by chance that had taken the outs.

Okay, so I'm sure now everybody's curious.

You have a week to prepare for this examination and you walk out with a band?

So why don't you tell us a little bit About between the moment when you spoke to your friend and you decided that you're going to take the aisles and the moment that you stepped into the examination room, What was that period like, What did you do during that week?

Um Well, first of all, I decided to look cop exam itself, to understand it.

Parts on dhe, Probably some strategists for preparation or for taking it on DDE.

So after that, I understood what were my so just say stronger, um, warrants or weaker and where I was more comfortable S s.

Well, not really practice, but analyze more writing, but, uh uh, reading and listening on speaking.

So it's a I didn't, uh, prepare for speaking at all because I didn't have much opportunity.

And I send that probably if my score would lower.

It was still okay if I had a discourse in other parts.

Um, I took some marked it for listening and reading parts on my first day of preparation, and I understood that the they were pretty clear for me.

I made probably just a couple of mistakes in each part.

So he said that, uh, I would just look up some tips and tricks for taking those, but but I want consecrate much time to them.

And so my less comfortable part Waas say, because it's a long time since I started at the university and had a chance to You'll write something like that.

So, um, especially graphs, because I do academic our exam and my decision was Thio understand?

What were the types of offer stays on, what it were, the requirements.

I looked up kinds of times off stays and just copied them by hand and analyzed how they were made and how they were composed.

Actually, if I had that idea are because I had read some time ago that if you want Teoh right, like some right to just I just need to copy them on.

I thought that if that probably works with writers, why not try it with Okay, Very interesting.

So and that's a strategy that I'm hearing more and more successful students shared, so you basically you found reports you found this season and you copy the mod word for word and then try to reproduce what you were copying when you went to write it by yourself.

Now, if we were just focus for a second on the listening and the reading.

Now, before we started the recording, you were telling me that that you've had quite a history with with the English language and I suppose that was probably the real thing that contributed to you getting almost perfect in listening and a perfect score and reading.

Of course, even though I haven't started English, a school or some other corner for probably lost six or eight years, I still use the English a lot in reading and watching tons off TV series or just movies on dhe My.

I would say that my preferred language for E now is English.

So if I'm interested in some book, I first to look up the English version and then, uh uh, Russian translation or some other language translation on Duh.

I think that that's what helped mostly with reading, because I do read on multiple topics which do not only include my that the top of the send my professional development, but also other areas of interest.

I was quite prepared for the test because the first text the game was on online business, online sales and that would that subject I here and read a lot about it.

Work on the second test was about some research off a bird's population in the K, and that's water.

I probably could look up on week video or somewhere else.

So the text was quite clear for me as well.

But it was a text about different concepts of language and its relations toe anthropology.

And I probably had read some books or articles on those topics.

So if, uh, I would do summarize my experience here and to probably give some otherwise it would be to switch on to English as your preferred English off your preferred language for very about your topics of interest and the war you reader about all the things in the world, the movie bed you get, for example, And so it sounds that you had a tech article which was the only business, you something about nature, which was about birds, I suppose, And then something sort of related to science slash history with the with the concepts of language.

What you're saying is that these are topics that you had previously had some experience reading about because they were there in areas that that you have some personal interest.

Probably not about really birds per se, but I might have looked up something different.

So the words the scientific language about animals and the populations, the research wasn't a new for me.

And so it sounds like the Funda fundamental strategy that you're suggesting it is to try to a cz Muchas you can operate in English from in your day to the life.

Would you say that the same is true for the listing?

Well, because I think what um, help me mostly eyes that I watched a lot off movies on TV series in English.

I also listened Thio English stones on DDE I think that would also help me is that it work?

I participate in the conference calls with my colleagues from other countries, and even though they're not usually native speakers, I I think it's still very helpful to listen to different accents to actively listen, I might say, because you need to understand what they talking about to provide your in butter and so on, and so that different accents are not surprised.

And you can understand the different topics, like everyday communication or probably something more specific.

Now you had mentioned in your e mail to me that you had watched the strategies that were shared by two other successful Isles candidates, Vivid and Toby S O.

And did you follow any of the same ways of engaging the examination that they share?

Um uh, it's it's a good question because that video was one of the first that I watched s so it was more like inspiration and I think melt.

It has noted now with some other beaches that I wish after that.

But the trick that I remember from there speak it is for listening.

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