Core strategy of scoring 7.0 and above in IELTS

What are the top strategies that you could use in your IELTS test? There are too many strategies being given by many so-called IELTS gurus, online.

Many students of mine used to ask me to reveal the shortcuts or secrets to succeeding in IELTS. May I use this opportunity to open up the secrets for them 😊

 When you look at your IELTS writing task1 and task2 (AC/GM) your marking criteria would be like this :

1.       Task achievement (25%)

2.       Grammatical accuracy and range (25%)

3.       Coherence and cohesion (25%)

4.       Lexical resources (25%)

When you approach a task, you have to read it, understand it and write well by putting your own ideas. You get unique and fresh tasks each time. Based on the data given on the task, you will have to develop your write-up so you cannot carry anything pre-planned.

Apparently, there are content-specific technical terms that you might have acquired naturally(by reading a plethora of books/articles) or learned during your IELTS class(a bit? ), which is a part of your strategy presets.

But that only plays 3%-5% part in the overall task. When your language skills are average or below average, you are going to lose over 75% of the total score by not meeting the requirements of the other 3 criteria, so your strategies may have a place of less than 10% of a criterion and when it is used in a wrong way it backfires you.

For example, memorizing and using high-level words(Vocabulary) is one of the strategies in witting and speaking tests. But the candidate should be pretty sure about the place of use and the sentence formation with that word for that your language skills should be good. When you look at many IELTS 9 Band score model essays, you can observe that most of the sentences are with simple words. What you have to note is, rather than using a high-quality word in the wrong place using a familiar word in a proper context gives your more score.

When you look at the IELTS Speaking test, you cannot perform any better using a particular strategy, rather than just naturally speaking to the examiner with clarity and appropriate vocabulary.

There is no scientific formula for you to just memorize and get through the IELTS in a very short span of time.

Though there are few strategies which can take you to the next level in IELTS, you have to have good language skills to apply them properly (Visit us for them :) )

Having good English language skills is the key of getting a higher band score in  IELTS.