3 IELTS Tricks to Instantly Improve Your Listening, Reading and Overall Exam Performance


If you need some help with IELTS Listening, Reading or you’re looking for a way to improve your IELTS score, this post is for you.
Quite often on IELTS-Blog.com we publish advice from successful test takers, and many of them mention podcasts as a useful tool to improve their Listening skills.
So here is an opportunity for you to work on Listening and learn new IELTS tricks at the same time.
Your homework for today is to listen to this IELTS podcast episode.
We recorded it with Lindsay McMahon from IELTS Energy – she and Jessica Beck are hosting this very popular IELTS podcast, and it’s available on iTunes (Episode 73) and on their blog as well.
You can listen on your smartphone, tablet or computer, it only takes about 15 minutes, and you will learn
1. How to use the IELTS structure to your advantage
2. How to do things in the right order to save time
3. How to turn your weaknesses into your strengths (this is especially important for people doing self-study)
Happy listening!

A common mistake in the IELTS Listening module – watch out!

In a couple of days’ time many of you will be sitting your IELTS exams and I thought this would be a good time to tell you about one common mistake that has been hurting the scores of other test takers.
As you know the Listening test consists of 4 sections. Before each section you will hear some instructions and there will be some time to look at the questions. Then the recording will begin playing and you will need to listen and write down your answers. You will be writing the answers right in the Listening booklet, next to the questions they belong to.

As you also know, at the end of the Listening test the answers must be written on the Answer Sheet. And here is the part you need to pay attention to: some people mistakenly choose to copy the answers to the Answer Sheet during the time they are given before each section begins. This is a BIG mistake, because that time is for you to concentrate on reading the questions about the new section (that is about to begin), it is the time to try and understand what’s coming – it should not be used for looking back or copying answers.
After the test you will be given 10 whole minutes to copy all your answers to the Answer Sheet and only then you need to be doing that. Any time spent on copying during the actual test is WASTED, it’s not doing you any good – in fact it distracts you and therefore harms your score.
Good luck with your exams, everybody!

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