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How To Get A High Score In IELTS In One Month?

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Sep 16, 2016 · 5 min read

Today, some people on Quora.com asked me How to get a

high score (Band 7.0+) in IELTS in ONE MONTH?
My answer is “The chance of getting the score you want in one month is pretty
unpredictable. It depends on your current level of English proficiency, your hard
work, focus and commitment.”

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(Part 1)

1. If you currently have a high level of English proficiency (Band 6.0–6.5), you just
need to learn and accumulate some proper techniques, tips and apply to practicing
tests daily to get the score you need (Band 7.0–7.5). You can download or buy
Cambridge IELTS practice tests 8–11 to practice at home. You can also learn Exam
Tips, using IELTS Target Band 7: How to Maximize Your Score, The Official
Cambridge Guide to IELTS.

If you are worse at one IELTS skill than others, you should focus more on it. For
example, your IELTS Reading score is 5.5 while other skills are over 6.0, you should get
down to improving your reading skills by using this excellent book by Sam McCarter:
Improve your IELTS Reading Skills. (This famous IELTS author published an “Improve
your IELTS skills” series including the above mentioned book, Improve your IELTS
Writing Skills and Improve your IELTS Listening and Speaking Skills, you can check out
for these great books).

Each day, you should learn at least 10 English Collocations and New Words for top 9
common topics in IELTS (crime, education, health, media, work, energy and
environment, traffic, people, home). How to learn Vocabulary in the most effective
way?

Jot a new word down to a notebook in terms of various topics (with its translations
or definitions)

Write the words and definitions on sticky notes or a small piece of paper (you
should write the New word on the front side and its definition on the back side. So
that you can only turn the note back when you forget its meaning)

Speak new words out repeatedly. In case you get access to the Internet, you can use
the online dictionary to learn how to pronounce them)

Make associations (in pictures or with other words)

Have somebody to test you about new vocabulary

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Utilize them to practice for your IELTS speaking or writing

2. However, if your English level is quite low (like current band is 5.0–5.5 and you
want to get Band 7.0+) you are less likely to get the score you need. In fact, IELTS
learners with just one month left for the IELTS exam will get panic and work their
socks off to improve their Vocabulary, Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing, and
Grammar. They just digest tons of books without any study strategy. My suggestion is
that you need to draw up an effective and coherent study strategy to improve your
general level of English and learn exam technique.

2.1 For scheduling your study

A multitude of students have more than 3 months to study and they do a little bit of
work every week for the first 2 and a half months and then realise that their exam is
next week and they still know very little. So what should you do? Don’t let this happen
to you by scheduling your study. As I mentioned above, you need 3 factors to get a high
score: Focus, Commitment, and Hard Work.

First of all, you must stop doing non-essential things for the entire time before your
exam (stop checking Facebook every 10 minutes, playing games on your cellphone,
wasting time with friends or watching TV). These non-productive things waste an
unbelievable amount of time that could be better spent improving your chances of
getting the score you need. This might sound harsh, but if you want to get a
seriously high score, you have to work seriously hard. For me, hard work is the
number one differential. It doesn’t matter how intelligent you are or how naturally
good you are at learning English, if you work hard, you will get the scores you
need.

Make a to-do list. These should be as specific as possible e.g. learn technique for
part 2 of speaking test, listen to podcast every day, read 4 English newspaper
articles each day, practice test etc.

Work out how much free time you have every day from now until your test.

Get a calendar (make your own calendar or use an electronic one) and fill out what
you are going to do every day before your test.

Tick off every day and every task you complete as you do them.

Don’t skip. If you miss something, go back and do it.

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If you follow the advice above you will be more prepared than 95% of people doing the
test

2.2 For improving your general level of English proficiency

You should immerse yourself into English at least 6 hours per day. It means you
will be a full-time IELTS learner and you need to listen to English and read English
daily. You should also be writing and speaking in English as much as possible.

I suggest that you should get access to the most popular magazine World News,
Politics, Economics, Business & Finance, BCC learning English to improve your
Reading andListening skills and learn Vocabulary and useful structures for Writing
Task 2.

For Speaking, you just need this site: IELTS Speaking: Face the IELTS Speaking
exam with confidence.

You can also study from these great Youtube Channels: Learn English with Emma
[engVid] |AcademicEnglishHelp | IELTS Ryan

To practice daily, you can download Top 8 IELTS Books and do at least 1 practice
test per day.

2.3 To learn exam technique:

You must also learn about all of the different types of questions and how to
approach them for Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. The great thing
about IELTS is that it is fairly predictable. For example, if you are doing Academic
Writing Task 1, you just need to learn how to write a summary of at least 150
words in response to a particular graph (bar, line or pie graph), table, chart, or
process to get a decent score.

You can also make use of the following books to learn more exam tips, techniques:
IELTS Target Band 7: How to Maximize Your Score, The Official Cambridge Guide
to IELTS. You can also look at the pages below that will show you exam technique
for the four main areas:

Exam Tips
Listening
Speaking

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Writing
Reading
Practice Tests

You have accepted a big challenge in your life. Follow these suggestions to maximize
your limited time to score your highest in IELTS!

Main IELTS Pages:

This website is to develop your IELTS skills with tips, model answers, lessons, free books,
and more. Each section (Listening, Speaking, Writing, Reading) has a complete
collection of lessons to help you improve your IELTS skills.

IELTS Speaking

IELTS Listening

IELTS Reading

IELTS Writing

IELTS Writing Task 1

IELTS Writing Task 2

IELTS Writing Forum

Vocabulary for IELTS

Free IELTS Books

Free IELTS Practice Tests

Exam Tips

Grammar for IELTS

Word of the Day for IELTS Speaking and Writing

Home Page: IELTS Material

Originally published at www.ieltsmaterial.com ( April 27, 2016)

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