Why take an online IELTS Preparation Course?
- Because IELTS is a difficult test. While
most agree that IELTS is a reasonable test, it is generally regarded as
one of the most challenging tests of its type.
- Because IELTS has question types peculiar to it.
Among the ten or so question types IELTS commonly uses, about half are
used only by it or in ways unique to it. In particular, the Reading
Task questions about identifying the writer’s point of view is unique
to IELTS and particularly challenging, since it requires “reading
between the lines,” a skill that usually has to be taught.
- Because IELTS uses familiar question types in
unique ways. IELTS short answer questions, for example, are
asked in three different ways. In all cases, at least at most testing
centers, the unwritten rule is that the answers must be no longer than
three words each. So, even if you have the write answer but have
expressed it in more than three words, your answer will be counted as
wrong.
- Because IELTS sometimes asks even familiar
question types in deliberately tricky ways. IELTS may, for
example, provide a statement expressed in positive language as a
true-or-false question when the answer in the Listening or Reading
exercise appears in negative terms that have the same meaning as the
positive words in the question. IELTS also may ask questions that
require candidates to combine information from different places to
arrive at the correct answer. In the Listening test, IELTS sometimes
asks questions at the end of a section that require candidates to have
been keeping track throughout the exercise; so, if the candidate has
not read the question first, he or she may not be prepared to answer.
- Because IELTS has specific formats it wants
followed. It’s not enough merely to write or speak well, for
the IELTS Writing and Speaking tasks, it is critical that candidates
answer in the ways IELTS expects them to. That means following often
detailed formats that can be learned only in IELTS Preparation courses.
In particular, there are rules about the Speaking task – and particular
its middle section, during which candidates speak on their own – that
are not explained to candidates in advance.
- Because IELTS penalizes candidates as much as
whole band point for not answering questions as asked. For
example, if the Writing Task 2 question asks a candidate his or her
opinion on a topic and the candidate writes about the various opinions
pro and con with respect to that topic, there will be a penalty of an
entire band point no matter how well the candidate writes.
There is no substitute for good, solid
English skills. They are what IELTS measures. But without an in-depth
introduction to the many things that are either specific to the IELTS
test or the particular ways IELTS expects common tasks to be performed,
it is unlikely that a candidate will earn the highest possible score.
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