Tips on Taking the IELTS

Two of my friends were scheduled to take the IELTS exam. The IELTS is an English Exam that is recognized worldwide to standardize and quantify knowledge on English language. As their website says, “…. To start their journeys into international education and employment.”

                My friends will use the exam for academic purposes to study in Australia. They asked for my help since I am quite expert in English J

                They wanted me to check if they can pass or even ace the exam that will take place in about 5 days. We reviewed for a day the following:

1.       Listening

2.       Speaking

3.       Writing

On this blog, we will delve on the Writing Part. In IELTS, they are given a statement and write their opinion about it for 250-300 words. The time allotted for them to do this is about 40 minutes. From our review session, this is was I shared to them:

1.       Remember that the test is to be checked by a human being. Thus, write legibly.

2.       Time Management. In writing in the real world, everyone is given deadlines. Even when writing your diary, you set a personal deadline of finishing it in a day if you want to have another entry the following day (to make your diary rich and meaningful, that is).

Below are some tactics to manage time in writing their essays:

·         Make a Writing Plan at the beginning of the 40-min period. For 3 minutes.

·         Bring a digital watch with you.

·         Focus!

3.       Budget your thoughts to the set limit of words. The essay is set to 250-300 words. As a tactic, write the first 2 lines of your essay. The first line should contain only 10-12 words. This is to ensure that your writing is large enough to be legible. Then, number the lines of your essay paper. Your lines should be from 25-27 lines. Thus, you will not be wasting time counting the number of words of your entire essay. You managed the length of your essay via space allocation.

We will deal more on the Writing Plan technique on the next blogs. 

I hope those who will take the IELTS all the best!

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