IELTS Listening Strategy # 25 Practice Your Listening Skills
Listening is a language skill that is vital for communication. However, it is often done poorly. One reason for this is that people often don’t practice listening in the way they…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 24 Use your 10 Minutes Transfer Time Effectively
At the end of the Paper Based listening test, you have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. Transfer your answers quickly and accurately, making sure you write…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 23 Make Intelligent Guesses
You do not lose marks for incorrect answers so you should attempt to answer all forty questions. You only hear the information one time, so you should write down your answers or guesses…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 22 Know the Instructions Types
The instructions must be carefully followed during the test. This is because often the instructions will vary from question to question. The following points are important to keep in mind: Quickly…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 21 Forget the Missed Question
Many IELTS candidates have missed two or three listening answers in a row, simply because they are still thinking about the answer that they just missed. Do not do this…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 20 Stay with the Speaker
Successful IELTS candidates are patient on the listening test. In other words, they do not rush to write down their answers or get anxious when they are waiting for an answer…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 19 Know When to Use Capital Letters
In IELTS listening, making a mistake with a capital letter is like making a mistake with spelling. Therefore, you need to know that capital letters are used in the following…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 18 Practice Methods to Improve Spelling
Practice your spelling as follows: Read – say – cover – write – check For example, if you are having difficulties spelling the word ‘receive’, you should follow the above…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 17 Learn Common Spelling Rules
Spelling mistakes are marked incorrect on the test paper. Therefore, spelling is extremely important for the IELTS listening. This is because you will not only hear the answer words, but you…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 16 Check Meaning and Grammar in Sentence Completion
Sentence completion questions are similar to gap-fill questions. They test three main areas: Your ability to listen to and understand wordsand synonymsin real situations. Your ability to write words with…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 15 Preview and Predict Gap-Fill Questions
In the brief time you have before each listening section starts, it is essential to quickly preview the questions, so you know what to listen for. For gap-fill questions, it…
IELTS Listening Strategy # 14 Eliminate Incorrect Answers in Multiple-Choice Questions
When answering multiple choice questions on the Paper-Based Test, you should cross out the wrong answers. In most cases, there is only one correct answer. Of course, you should quickly look at…