IELTS GT - Initial observation/reaction

[SSKHAN]

I am planning to take IELTS in Sep. I got hold of a 2 hardcopies of books on IELTS. One is by Peter May and the other is called IELTS Practice Test 2.

I had earlier done some practice using the standard IELTS prep. material which we can get from British council and scored VERY well on that. But when I tried just a few of the listening exams in the above mentioned books, I got tons of answers wrong. Are the actual tests really this difficult?

Can people who have recently taken the test share their experience.

[sanjeevindia]

dear sskhan
i have taken the exam in the last of may and scored 7.5 overall. if u can concentrate then it is not that difficult. my suggestion is practice with the material u have and surf the net for free sites providing ielts practice material such as www.ieltsblog.com