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IELTS ( International English Language Testing System) is an English language test to measure the language proficiency for study, migration, or work. It gauges one’s ability to handle the English language and is presented on a scale of 1-9 band score. Over three million people take the IELTS test every year. IELTS is accepted by over 11,000 organizations in more than 140 countries. These include universities, schools, colleges and training organizations, government departments, and immigration authorities.
If you are planning to migrate to Canada, having a qualifiable IELTS score is inevitable. Business and education organizations have a definitive outlook on how masterful they want their employees and students in communication language. The post covid migration trend is rising since the borders are opened, which in a way the manifestation of the need for job seekers to find better opportunities, not only in Canada but around the globe.
Your immigration timeline and the ease of going through the entire immigration cycle can be impacted adversely if you do not score an expected overall and individual band score in the IELTS assessment. For non-native speakers acquiring the retaining the necessary skill to ace the assessment are an unavoidable hassle. Even sometimes the native speakers couldn’t score high enough without proper preparation. Obtaining a good score in the assessment requires an insightful understanding of the English language. As many are struggling to get the required score, we are putting together a list of things you need to mind on a broader level to excel in your next IELTS assessment.
A huge majority of the immigration aspirants drop their dream of migrating to Canada or even choose another easier country after they fail to score well in the IELTS assessment. If you couldn’t achieve high on the first attempt, you shouldn’t be losing the hope and drop but prepare better and go on taking the next assessment. If you have all the qualifications for the job and only the language proficiency is what stops you to get it, then it’s worth giving it a try. More than that, joining the right job could be an impactful decision on your career path even if takes a few months extra time, don’t tamper with your career growth because you couldn’t give a second or third chance.
Before you start preparing for the test, you must understand the layout of the assessment completely. IELTS assesses a candidate on 4 parameters reading, writing, listening, and speaking, with a time allotment of 30, 60, 60, and 15 minutes respectively. The listening and reading test has 40 questions to answer whereas the writing has 2 questions.
Understand in-depth the format of the exam
Sometimes we assume that understanding the test pattern and a few hours of practice would be sufficient to crack the exam with a good score, but this is far from reality because an insightful understanding of the language is what requires to ace the exam, for which a significant amount of preparation is needed. Time is the ‘great barrier’ here. Though one acquires the skill to handle a particular set of questions, doing it inside the given time limit is the challenge. For example, for the reading test, there are 40 questions and 60 minutes. Leaving 5-10 minutes as a buffer time to recheck your answer, you get a total of 50-55 minutes for 40 questions which ideally leaves you with a little above 1 minute for each question. Practise is the only way you can equip yourself to face this situation.
Getting training from an IELTS coach or expert will help you tremendously to prepare yourself to take the exam with control over time. A good coach will know the tricks and foolproof methods to tackle every type of question. Ask around and find an expert locally to get physical coaching or even go for online tutors. If you would need our assistance to recommend an experienced coach, reach us here.
It’s an entirely strategic game with a lot of preparation needed for perfection. You should have your strategy in place for each segment of tests and questions which include an effective timing strategy, answer re-checking strategy and preparation strategy, etc. If you are not preparing under the guidance of an expert, watch as much as tutorial videos and read as much content on the strategy to approach each test before starting the preparation.
For example, Visualising the questions and scenarios will give you a confusion-free thinking space for finding the answers, and Checking the answer individually or collectively will help you avoid losing marks mistakenly. There are plenty of strategies out there, as general and specific for tests. Having all the needed strategies under your belt will indeed pay off.
Any job in Canada demands a specific IELTS band score as a minimum qualification. Set your band score expectation high enough before starting the preparation.
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