How To Prepare For IELTS in 10 Days: A Super Strategy To Achieve Your Desired Band Score
A famous quote says – “Procrastination leads to creativity”. If your preparation time for the IELTS has been cut down for some reason, it’s time for you to get creative to score well.
Apart from locking yourself in a room with a 10-day food and water supply, here are 10 secret tips to help you get creative and get going to achieve an acceptable band score. And yes it has been done before so just let’s jump into how to prepare for IELTS in such a short time.
Day 1
Get a reality check- It is easy to sit around and get lost in the dream of enjoying a foreign nation. But to get there you need a good band score. Take a free practice mock test at any best IELTS preparation online portals, do a toe-dip test and analyze your weakness to identify the sections of the test you need to work on and understand the test format.
Day 2
Get your IELTS practice materials/ research/ help in place- Before you start studying it is important that you find reliable sources . There are multiple websites that will claim to have helped candidates score a dream band 9 in 15 days but can you really understand what they are saying?
If the answer is no, we suggest you move on instead of trying to figure out what is being said. Each person has a way of absorbing information, dedicating your precious time to finding that for yourself rather than struggling for the next 8 days.
Also, this would be a good time to recognize if you need professional help for IELTS preparation courses or not. 10 days is not enough to go from Band 6 to Band 9.
In the IELTS exam, 4 skills are tested – listening, reading, writing, and speaking. So, it is crucial that the next 4 days be dedicated to deciphering the structure and understanding the question pattern for each of these tests.
Day 3
Reading Test- for the reading test particularly, do the following:
- Develop the art of skimming, scanning and reading with agility. This will help you locate answers faster.
- Read the sample questions and the instructions really well in order to not miss the finer details.
- Understand ‘paraphrasing’ and ‘rewriting’ as it is a commonly tested skill when answering in the IELTS reading section.
Day 4
Listening Test- The listening test includes listening to 4 audio clips and answering questions on the go. For this section of the test particularly, practice the following:
- Take note of the questions quickly before the audio clip begins, look for the keywords in the questions.
- Develop the art of writing down answers while continuing to listen.
- The answers are presented in a sequential fashion. If you miss answer 3 and have answered 4 already, then you can forget about getting back to the right answer. There is no repetition of the clip.
- Train yourself to get over the panic of missing an answer as it can be a detriment to all the upcoming questions.
- Get used to the accent, BBC radio should come to the rescue here.
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