Timely Advice to Increase Your IELTS Success

Get 42 ways to boost your IELTS Band Score

You need every advantage possible to do well on the either the General or Academic IELTS exam.

Don't let fear of the Speaking or Writing Section affect your whole Band Score.

Know your strengths and weaknesses heading into the test!

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Power Up with Extra #IELTS #Skills - Day 4

Use these Extra IELTS tips to help you notch a high Band Score on the exam.

Whether a General or Academic candidate, you can take advantage of the IELTS lessons presented on this blog and the sister blog, businessenglishace.com.

On Tuesday and Thursday, enjoy Extra IELTS tips to improve your chances for a for achieving IELTS Excellence on test day.

You can review the previous Extra IELTS tips post. Remember, you can also download my IELTS Cheat Sheet for 11 tips to help study better for a high score on exam day.

IELTS Vocabulary

As you probably know, building a strong vocabulary is one of the best moves you can make for the IELTS.

Indeed, your word wealth is a predictor of lifetime success.

Can you use today's IELTS vocabulary word correctly in your English sentences?

Fluctuate is a powerful verb to describe trends in a chart, graph, or process in Academic Task 1.

Definition: Verb -  to rise and fall irregularly in number or amount 

Example:
The number of graduates from Groucester College fluctuated between 2,000 and 3,500 from 2010 to 2015.

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IELTS Grammar

Do you know how to use Bare and Bear correctly in your sentences?

Answer:

Ravi broke the lamp in the store and had to bear its cost.    

But...Janie bared her soul to the judge in an attempt to get less punishment for stealing the Corvette.

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Use bear for "to endure or to yield."

Ex: Jaime must bear the responsibility for failing his exam - he never studied.

Use bare for "to uncover or to expose."

The struggling actress was poorly paid to bare her breasts in her small movie role.

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Brush up on your grammar for success on the IELTS exam.

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Conclusion

Continue to study for that high Band Score you deserve on the exam.

Way #2 to Boost Your IELTS Band Score - Listening

Listening is considered the language skill you use the most. Active listening is a skill to hone for IELTS Excellence.

However, many IELTS candidates lose points not necessarily from misinterpreting the audio, but spelling!

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IELTS Listening and Spelling

If you get the correct answer, one of the biggest problems for candidates in the Listening Section is misspelling their answers.

Both British and US spelling conventions are accepted - like theatre or theater.

Be sure to choose one way of spelling and use it throughout your exam.

Spelling errors are heavily penalized on the exam.

Along with solid vocabulary, you need to be able to spell your words correctly as well.

Go check out this video of the Top 10 IELTS Spelling Mistakes.

One more thing…

Check out this video for more IELTS Listening tips.

Conclusion

IELTS Excellence continues right here on the blog.

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Up Next: Way# 3: Your Reading Skills.

Study #IELTS Extra Tips - Day 2

Are you studying for the IELTS exam?

Whether a General or Academic candidate, you can take advantage of the IELTS lessons presented on this blog and the sister blog, businessenglishace.com.

On Tuesday and Thursday, enjoy Extra IELTS tips to improve your chances for a high Band Score.

Make sure to download my IELTS Cheat Sheet just in case!

IELTS Vocabulary

As you probably know, building a strong vocabulary is one of the best moves you can make for the IELTS.

For IELTS Academic Task 1, you need to analyze a chart, graph or process.

Marginally is a great word you can use to talk about change. 

Example:

The production of widgets fell marginally between 1989 and 1999. 

Thus, there was only a slight or negligible change. 

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IELTS Grammar

Do you know how to use Fewer and Less correctly in your sentences?

Answer:

We wear less clothing in hot weather. 

But...We wear fewer clothes in hot weather.

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credit:

Use fewer if you’re referring to people or things in the plural (e.g. houses, newspapers, dogs, students, children).

Use less when you’re referring to something that can’t be counted or doesn’t have a plural (e.g. money, air, time, music, rain). 

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Even though grammar is not explicitly graded on the exam, be sure to devote part of your IELTS preparation to studying your weak points of grammar.

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Conclusion

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Immediately Impact Your #IELTS Band Score in 7 Ways - Series Kick Off

Welcome to the kick off of a series to posts to boost your IELTS power for the big test day.

Two to three times a week, you will get another tip to help make a big difference in your IELTS prep.

Be sure to check out IELTS Tips Day 1 on the sister blog at businessenglishace.com .

Today is the Day 1 for the series, 7 Ways to Immediately Impact Your IELTS Band Score.

Get the direct and frank recommendations from a seasoned English professor and IELTS instructor.

The following tips are pieces of advice I give my own students.

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Way #1 to Boost Your IELTS Band Score

Before you start your IELTS preparation, you need to size up your strengths and weaknesses.

Are you a better English speaker than writer?

Is your vocabulary weaker than your grammar?

When you design your study plan, you need to know where to focus for the maximum impact.

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Conclusion

Stay tuned for more ways to achieve IELTS Excellence right here on the blog.

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Up Next: Way# 2: Your Listening Skills.

Use Transitions, Signposting for Better Paragraphs

When, writing a paragraph, use transitions and signposting to link your ideas.

Linking, as we saw in our previous articles on cohesion and coherence, is key to clear and persuasive writing.

Learn how to use transitions and signposting to improve your writing today!

Transitions

Transitions in clear and concise paragraphs help you convey information by establishing logical connections between sentences and paragraphs in your papers...

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Follow 5 Criteria to Boost Your IELTS Writing Success

Students often request private classes to improve their English writing skills in preparation for the IELTS exam.

Unfortunately, writing is an often neglected skill in ESL curricula and classes around the world.

However, for the IELTS, you need to not only know how to write well, but the exact criteria the IELTS graders seek in order to maximize your writing score.

Plus, you need to mix in the features of your basic essay.

Together you will have the five criteria for IELTS Writing success. So, let’s get started!

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Powerful Paraphrasing - Improve your IELTS Writing, Speaking Scores

Do you need to improve your IELTS writing and speaking scores?

Then, learn how to unleash your paraphrasing power. Read on!

Today, in our continuing series on extra skills you need to maximize your IELTS score, you are going to take away how paraphrasing can help you on the IELTS exam.

In the two previous articles, you learned about how to summarize and how to take notes.

Paraphrasing, simply put, is restating an author’s text in your own words...

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