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Okay so what's the best way to prepare for your IELTS test?
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Well the first thing that you need to do is you need to establish the specific reasons.
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why you are not getting the score that you need?
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There will be very very specific things related to grammar, vocabulary, task achievement, coherence and cohesion, fluency, pronunciation.
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Depending on what part of the test you need to work on,
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there will be very specific things that are causing you to get a lower score than you're hoping for.
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So what you need to do is you need to figure out exactly which areas are causing you to get that lower score.
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So for the reading and listening tests, that will mean doing practice tests, looking at your own mistakes, and figuring out things yourself.
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For the speaking and writing parts, you'll need to get a really good teacher to look at your writing, listen to your speaking.
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And they will be able to tell you the very specific things that are causing you to get 6, 6.5.
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And the things that you need to do in order to move to a 7, but that's just the first stage.
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The second stage is you need to learn how to do those things.
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So if you need a band 7, you need to learn how to do band 7 things.
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So identify your weaknesses and then learn how to turn those into strengths.
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But that's just the second stage. The third stage is you need to do those things.
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So many of you will learn what to do, but you'll never actually do those things.
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For example, you might watch a video on how to paraphrase, but you'll never actually practice paraphrasing.
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So identify your weaknesses first stage, second stage learn what to do, third stage do that thing.
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But that's just the third stage.
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The fourth stage is you need feedback on doing that thing.
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So for example, you might identify the paraphrasing is an issue; you learn how to do that.
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You try a few paraphrases.
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And then you get a teacher to look at your paraphrasing and give you feedback on your work.
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Because if you don't follow that crucial step, then you're not going to know if you've learnt how to do it properly or not.
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You're not going to know if you have made lots of mistakes or everything's good.
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So that is the second final stage. The final stage is: improve.
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Take action on the feedback that your teacher gives you.
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And improve it, and learn how to do that thing properly.
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So it goes around in a circle.
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Find out what your weaknesses are, learn how to turn those into strengths, do those things, get feedback, and improve.
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And then if you apply that strategy to every part of your IELTS preparation, you're going to see massive improvement.
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Hope that helps you out.
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Take action and keep it simple. Thank you!
