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IELTS Preparation Material to score 7.5 and above in all sections.

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Rangrez

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Hi,
People who have the score of band 7 and above in different sections. Could you please share the Books/Blogs/websites or other resources which you used to prepare. It would help people like me who have to give re-test in a few weeks.

I scored 8/8/6.5/7(LRWS). I missed CLB 9 by 0.5 in writing. This is how I prepared for my exam. I referred to only one website http://ieltsliz.com/.
Listening:
  • Listened to BBC podcasts.
  • Gave Cambridge Listening tests (thanks to youtube).
Reading
  • Watched all Liz's videos for true/false/NG or other tips.
  • Gave all 4 tests of Cambridge IELTS 13.
  • Read a few articles online and searched for the meaning of new words.
Writing:
  • Task 1: Wrote a few from the recent exam topics.
  • Task 2: Wrote 2-3 essays of all kinds(opinion/adv.-disadv./discussion).
  • Read a few essays online.
Speaking:
  • Practiced most of the recent speaking question with a friend.

It would be great if you guys can share how you prepared.

Thanks.
 
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cansha

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Aug 1, 2018
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Rangrez said:
Hi,
People who have the score of band 7 and above in different sections. Could you please share the Books/Blogs/websites or other resources which you used to prepare. It would help people like me who have to give re-test in a few weeks.

I scored 8/8/6.5/7(LRWS). I missed CLB 9 by 0.5 in writing. This is how I prepared for my exam. I referred to only one website http://ieltsliz.com/.
Listening:
  • Listened to BBC podcasts.
  • Gave Cambridge Listening tests (thanks to youtube).
Reading
  • Watched all Liz's videos for true/false/NG or other tips.
  • Gave all 4 tests of Cambridge IELTS 13.
  • Read a few articles online and searched for the meaning of new words.
Writing:
  • Task 1: Wrote a few from the recent exam topics.
  • Task 2: Wrote 2-3 essays of all kinds(opinion/adv.-disadv./discussion).
  • Read a few essays online.
Speaking:
  • Practiced most of the recent speaking question with a friend.

It would be great if you guys can share how you prepared.

Thanks.
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My scores L8.5 R8.5 S 8.5 W 7

Preparation as follows

Listening:
  • Cambridge and Barron's listening tests. Easily available online on google search.
Reading
  • Official Cambridge IELTS General passages
Speaking
  • Practiced with a friend but not much time spent on this one.
Writing

Task 1: Not much practice as I write similar emails all the time in real life.

Task 2: Spent most of my time on preparing for this one. My grammar and vocab are good. But IELTS is a test and I wanted to know what exactly they will be testing. So saw the ieltzliz videos to understand what is required in IELTS task 2.
  • Read a lot of model essays online classified as Band 8 or Band 9 essays.
  • Practiced to generate ideas based on topics. So initially I just read the topic of the essay and I used to write down ideas related to the topic.
  • Practiced writing the introduction paragraph based on inputs on ieltsliz website.
  • Reviewed concepts of complex sentences and other forms of sentences.
  • Practiced writing 8-10 essays and got them reviewed from a friend who was also appearing for IELTS
 
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