Ultimate guide to score high bands in IELTS

Have you decided to take IELTS exam? If yes, what will be your next step to score high in the IELTS exam? How will you plan your preparation? Many questions may arise in a person’s mind when he is opting for a unique path. Doing it in a right way will save your time and money, and there is a high probability that you will score well.
Through this blog, Touchstone professionals have made it easy for you to prepare and score high in the IELTS exam. Here listed are some of the points to keep in mind while preparing for IELTS exam.

Are you finding IELTS preparation difficult?

Nowadays, you can find a lot of sources on the web to prepare for the IELTS exam. Students often get confused on which author or site to follow to prepare well. Preparation for IELTS does take time and hard work. It is difficult to get it right initially. Here are the points that you need to focus on while preparing for the IELTS exam:

Test Skills

Mainly there are four sections in IELTS test:
Every section is composed of various questions and each section requires a specific skill.
In the Listening and reading sections, you will come across various categories of questions. All the categories require different strategy and skill set.
Learning a language takes far more time than learning these skills. The main part of your IELTS preparation requires understanding the skills to solve a question and practicing them as many times as possible. And this will definitely help you to score high.

Your Level of English

As you know that IELTS is an English language test, so your level of English will decide how well you score in your exam. If your English is weak, it won’t work if you just keep studying IELTS skills and keep practicing the tests.

Knowing the scoring pattern

You must be aware of the fact that what is it that the examiner is looking for and try to provide him that.
Touchstone professionals have mentioned some of the steps that will help you prepare for IELTS:
Are you opting for an academic training or general?

How Touchstone helps you Score High in IELTS?

Touchstone being the best IELTS institute in India offers the most apprehensive IELTS training to its students. The IELTS preparation programs of Touchstone re-ratified in a way that provides sufficient practice to the students in each and every technique required for taking IELTS test. So, contact Touchstone and fulfill your dreams by scoring high in IELTS.

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Listening

The IELTS Listening test consists of four recordings (four parts) from native English speakers with ten (10) questions in each recording (part).

Recording 1: an everyday social conversation between two people

Recording 2: a monologue set in an everyday social context

Recording 3: an educational conversation with upto four people

Recording 4: a monologue on an academic subject

Listening test scores will be based on your ability to understand the main ideas,
factual information, opinions, attitude and purpose of the speaker and your ability
to follow the development of ideas.

No. of questions: 40 Marks:

each question is worth one (1) mark

Total time: 30 minutes (+ 2 minutes review time )

Speaking

The IELTS Speaking test assesses your pronunciation, grammar, accuracy, fluency and lexical resources while speaking English. There are three (3) parts to this test, with each part fulfilling a specific function in terms of task input, interaction pattern and the test taker’s output.

Part 1: Introduction & Interview This part includes general questions about the test taker like residence, work,family, interests, etc.

Part 2: Long Run Cue cards are shared on a particular topic and one (1) minute will be given to prepare to speak for upto two (2) minutes on the topic.

Part 3: Discussion This part gives you the opportunity to discuss the topic from the cue card in further detail, in a more general and abstract way

Total time: 11-14 minutes

Reading

The IELTS Reading test is designed to test a wide range of reading skills including reading for skimming, details, gist, understanding arguments and writer’s opinions,attitude and purpose

IELTS Academic Reading – It includes three (3) reading passages (with a variety of questions) ranging from descriptive and factual to discursive and analytical. These passages are of general interest dealing with interesting and recognizably appropriate issues, with at least one passage containing a detailed logical argument

Note: The reading texts may contain non-verbal materials as well like graphs, diagrams or illustrations.

IELTS General Reading – It includes three (3) daily passages (with 2-3 short texts in the first passage, 2 texts in the second passage and 1 long text in the third passage), based on an English-speaking environment, from notices, newspapers, magazines or advertisements.

Reading passage 1: texts based on social survival, like advertisements, notices and timetables

Reading passage 2: texts based on workplace survival, like contracts, job descriptions, staff development & training material

Reading passage 3: texts based on general reading, involving more extended prose and a complex structure.

No. of questions: 40

Marks: each question is worth one (1) mark

Total time: 60 minutes (no additional transfer time)

Note: Please note that the question types in the Listening & Reading sections can include multiple choice answers, true or false answers, matching information/headings or sentence, table & flow-chart completion.

Listening

The IELTS Listening test consists of four recordings (four parts) from native English speakers with ten (10) questions in each recording (part).

Recording 1: an everyday social conversation between two people

Recording 2: a monologue set in an everyday social context

Recording 3: an educational conversation with upto four people

Recording 4: a monologue on an academic subject

Listening test scores will be based on your ability to understand the main ideas,
factual information, opinions, attitude and purpose of the speaker and your ability
to follow the development of ideas.

No. of questions: 40 Marks:

each question is worth one (1) mark

Total time: 30 minutes (+10 minutes transfer time)