IELTS-Blog IELTS-Blog::How Sujish got Band 8 in IELTS (and you can, too!) How Sujish got Band 8 in IELTS (and you can, too!) Posted: 16 Apr 2014 03:30 AM PDT Sujish is a 31 year-old native Malayalam speaker from India. He got an overall Band 8 in IELTS (with an amazing 9 in Listening) and became one of the winners in our IELTS results competition in March. Here are a few things that Sujish did and recommends that you do to gain a higher score in IELTS: Listening Listening was never a problem, except for handling the tension in the first few minutes of the test. I am a regular viewer of English movies and English TV series. However, I practiced for the test before the exam to gain experience with the kind of questions that may be given. While watching the movies, sometimes I used to switch on the subtitles in order to clearly understand the conversation. I never felt any difficulties with understanding the monologues on TV (for example the Discovery channel and National Geographic). Reading I am a regular reader of English newspapers. This helped me to complete the reading test before the allowed time. During the exam, I read the questions first and then went to read the paragraphs; this helped me identify the area where the answers to the questions reside. Speaking The only difficult part in this sub-test was handling the tension during the interview. I was able to achieve this by having a friendly talk with my IELTS examiner for a few minutes before starting the exam. I used the tips from the textbook “Ace the IELTS” and deliberately used some phrases that I learned after registering for the exam. Moreover, I got a friend to interview me at least once every two days through Skype. He used Speaking questions from www.IELTS-blog.com website. Writing Writing is the difficult part of the test for me since I am a software engineer and I have not written anything on the paper after my graduation. My handwriting is the worst I have ever seen. I was expecting a higher mark for Writing and I confirmed it by sending the same answer to the IELTS-Blog writing correction service, where I got Band 7.5. Hence I have given this section for revaluation. IELTS-blog helped me a lot in writing. I have subscribed to this site and used to practice almost all the questions for writing and speaking which they sent to my personal email. I also read all the band 8 essays from this site and used their paid essay correction service a few times. In addition to that I referred to the textbook “Ace the IELTS”. Related posts: What helped Felix and Sandra achieve success in IELTS The 1st place winners of our IELTS Results competition, Felix... How Rohan overcame all difficulties and scored Band 8 in IELTS Rohan Arora was very proud to receive his IELTS result... How Ratnesh went from IELTS Band 7 to 8 in Writing Ratnesh is a young man from India whose success in... Tips for IELTS Band 8 from Akshay Deep (competition winner) Akshay Deep is one of the best scorers in... The strategy Anastassia used to get Band 7.5 Everyone, meet Anastassia Fokina, one of our past IELTS Results... You are subscribed to email updates from IELTS-Blog To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610
April 17, 2014 at 05:42AM
April 17, 2014 at 05:42AM
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