July 19th - Overall band at 8.5 - Thanks to Ryan!!

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dgulati
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Re: July 19th - Overall band at 8.5 - Thanks to Ryan!!

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Hi Sarojini

i read you success story and glad to know that u are willing to help others also

as i have problem in writing and reading .preapred alot for the examination but still not got the score .

so kindly help me to get out of this problem ....


thanks

dg
jinidgenie
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Re: July 19th - Overall band at 8.5 - Thanks to Ryan!!

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venkstar wrote:Dear Sarojini,

Congratulations on scoring an 8.50% band ! That is very impressive indeed. I am going to attempt a IELTS exam (GT module) in 3 weeks and i was a bit short of confidence while prepping (especially the Writing and Speaking modules) and i came here to seek direction and inspiration and i bumped into your story.

Therefore, may i request you to kindly give your suggestions with some specific queries i had which i am going to list down below

1. Writing - For writing, hows does one become a good writer (For both tasks) in the expected format of the exam, in the time given to us. My question is more from the time management perspective than general preparation on structure of writing.

2. Speaking - You mentioned that you had heard some videos on youtube for speaking. Can you kindly share the channel names with us please.

3. How many hours did you spend and how many practice tests did you attempt in those 10 days of preparation for the test ?

Thanks in advance for your inputs to my queries.

Venky

Hello Venky,

Thank you!! Here is what I have for your questions.

1) For the writing, I spend good 5-7 mins on Task 1 and 10-12 mins on task 2 just to think about what to write before I start writing. Once I decide what I want to put in the tasks, I then start writing the points I came up when I thought about the topics. It is just framing sentences on the points I came up with before I started writing.

2) Ryan uploaded on his channel a couple of videos and if you search on youtube for IELTS speaking band 7 or 8 or 9, the videos come up. That is how I got to them.

3) I spent about 3 - 4 hours each day after work and I never took any complete practice test with all modules but I practiced each sections separately.

Listening - Cannot really put a number for this one since each of the recordings are only about 2 mins long.
Reading - Practiced different types of reading passages about 50.
Writing - read at least 150 essays to understand different topics and practiced writing about 3 of each type.
Speaking - Listened to the videos of different people and practiced the basic questions and some common topics that I listed in my previous response. on this thread.

I hope this helps!

Good Luck!
jinidgenie
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Re: July 19th - Overall band at 8.5 - Thanks to Ryan!!

Post by jinidgenie »

dgulati wrote:Hi Sarojini

i read you success story and glad to know that u are willing to help others also

as i have problem in writing and reading .preapred alot for the examination but still not got the score .

so kindly help me to get out of this problem ....


thanks

dg
Hello Dg,

I told about how I prepared and what I did for each of the sections in this thread. If you have any specific questions, let me know and I will try to help as much as I can.

Good luck!
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