IELTS LISTENING TIPS
IELTS listening is one of the easiest parts of the test, but at the same time, it doesn’t get easy without doing a much-listening practice test because you get better the more you attempt questions and gain more experience on the question type. The listening questions come in various ways, they can be in a conversation between two or more people, a diagram labelling, a classroom lecture, a tour, booking a reservation, flight, room or whatever and then you have to fill in some gaps relating to the conversation or choosing the right option answer in the question booklet( for paper based test), if you are doing a computer delivered test then the question will be on your screen for you to fill in the gaps and choose the right answer.
KEY TOOLS TO TACKLE IELTS LISTENING
• Attempt listening questions daily, the more you try, the better you will be.
• Have a wide range of synonyms and antonyms, it’s crucial in all aspects of the test.
• Get yourself used to navigation for questions where you will be directed on how to get to a specific location in the test. For example, turn north, west, east or south. It might get complicated where you will be asked to turn north-west or north-east and you might be confused during the test.
• Make sure to read the question first during the break of the recording to have an idea of what will be discussed in the recording.
• Try preparing your mind for the answers that best fit the question, this will help to prepare your mind for likely answers to the question and make you have an idea of the possible answer.

WATCH OUT!!!!
A lot of students fall victim of these things thereby resulting in a low band score;
• Don’t loose focus during the test, you have to pay attention to the recording and figure out the answer therefore you need maximum concentration during the record play time in order to grasp all necessary information you need to fill.
• Do not mix capital letters with small letters, it is preferable to fill in your answers in capital letters for clarity purpose
• Watch out for wrong spelling of words, if you miss a letter in your answer, you will loose a point and a point may be important to push you to a good band score.
• Do not write more than the words given in the instruction, for instance, “WRITE NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS” it is okay to write “intensive coaching or coaching” you won’t be penalised for writing either of the two. Also, if the you are instructed to “WRITE NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND A NUMBER” it is okay to write “intensive coaching or intensive coaching 1” you won’t be penalised for writing either one of them.
• Some multi-choice question answers do not come in order, you need to be careful when dealing with them.

With all of this information you are good to go to kill the IELTS test and get a good band score(7+).

Thanks for your time, I wish you the best in your test.

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