How to prepare for IELTS test

Ielts international english proficiency test. English Language Proficiency Test jointly developed by Cambridge University Examinations Board, Australian Agency for International Development Education and British Council. As a language assessment and testing system, IELTS has experienced a long period of development and maturity. Because the exam itself is scientific and reliable, there are more and more institutions and countries in the world that recognize and recognize IELTS scores.

There are two kinds of IELTS.

1 General training is more suitable for immigrants. Focus on evaluating whether candidates have enough English ability to live in English-speaking countries.

Academic type is more suitable for studying abroad. The key point is to evaluate whether candidates who are going to enter universities and colleges with English as the main teaching language have the ability to study and research in English environment.

The above two types of test scores cannot be interchanged when used.

IELTS can accurately evaluate and test the actual English level of candidates in all directions. The examination involves listening, reading, writing and speaking. (Full score of 9 points in all aspects). Nevertheless, candidates should have an overall concept of IELTS when preparing for the exam. We should aim at improving the actual English level and conduct a comprehensive and systematic review, instead of just focusing on a certain part. Let's talk about how to prepare for IELTS more scientifically and effectively.

Most candidates who take the English exam will face the problem of insufficient vocabulary. Without a certain vocabulary, successfully passing the IELTS test is an empty talk, just like building a castle in the air. But a large number of new words make many candidates flinch. Although there are many books on IELTS vocabulary in the market, candidates generally report poor grades. Even though they have memorized a lot of vocabulary, they still can't use it well in the exam, but they just feel deja vu and ambiguous. Vocabulary is very important in English learning. Vocabulary learning depends on accumulation over time, and you can't cram for the exam, but have a surprise memory. Let me introduce several methods to you. 1, reading memory method: that is, vocabulary learning and memory during reading. When reading an article, you should mark the words you don't know, guess their meanings, and then look them up in the dictionary. In the process of guessing words before, in fact, some words have been guessed, and they will soon form a very deep impression after checking, and then remember the wrong words. 2, handwritten memory method: the specific approach is to find a notebook and record the new words encountered in daily study and life. In this process, we should make detailed records, including spelling, part of speech, synonyms, phonetic symbols, etc ... It is best to copy down the original sentence so as to understand the meaning and usage of the words more deeply. This method is not suitable for the coming exam, but as long as you persevere, your vocabulary will increase unconsciously. Repeating memory every once in a while means that vocabulary is studied and reviewed regularly. Draw up the total vocabulary learned in one day, and then recite these words at intervals throughout the day, not too short. Recite it once in the morning, once at noon, once in the afternoon and once or twice in the evening. Recite it every few days. If this cycle goes on, you will get a good memory effect. 4. Associative reflection memory method. When you see a word, you should recall whether the word you have learned before is similar to it in form or meaning. For example, when learning merge, you should think of synonyms such as combine or words with similar spelling, such as merge, emerge and converge. For example, when learning retrospect, you need to remember its adjective form retrospect. 5. Use a dictionary. When you look up the dictionary, you should find out the various forms of the words you are looking for. This saves time and deepens memory and pleasure. In short, memorizing vocabulary is a hard job, but as long as you grit your teeth and persevere, you will get twice the result with half the effort.

During the IELTS test, the first thing for candidates is the listening test. The examination time is ***40 minutes, the first 30 minutes are recorded, the candidates answer questions, and then the candidates are given 10 minutes to copy the answers on the answer sheet. The number of general questions is between 38 and 42, and there are four parts. The first and second parts are generally life scenes, such as asking for directions, renting a house, going to the bank … The language is colloquial. The third and fourth parts focus on the campus and study the scene. It may be the use of teaching facilities, the introduction of courses or the introduction of a product. The language is very formal, and there are several professional words. The recording of IELTS listening test is only played once, and the speed of listening and writing is about 220-300 words per minute. Accents are international accents, British accents, American accents, Australian accents and even Indian or Malaysian accents. The material of the listening version comes from the real language environment, so the pronunciation, intonation and speech speed will change frequently. Let's briefly introduce listening skills and learning methods. First of all, let's talk about the materials of the listening test. IELTS listening generally includes the following scenarios. 1 Geographical scene (introduction of the city and its traffic, population, environment, weather and climate) 2 Telephone scene 3 Tourism and holiday scene (including participants, site selection, route accommodation, etc. ) 4 Meeting scene 5 Freshmen's lecture scene (this kind of scene is more common in foreign universities) 6 Teaching and puzzle solving scene (research on problems and discussion on the revision of papers) 7 Investigation and research scene (including the following steps for us to answer questions: 1. Because there are many questions in the exam and the specific requirements are different, it is particularly important to examine the questions. Quickly scan the guidance requirements on the test paper to see the questions and answer requirements. If you can understand all kinds of questions well in the process of preparing for the exam, you can save time and adjust your status in time in the formal exam. 2 forecast. This step is particularly important in the formal examination. You can use the words on the test paper and the requirements put in the tape recorder to predict the scene or audible content. This way, you can concentrate on listening when the formal recording is played back. Record what you hear. IELTS test does not require candidates to understand every word in what they read, but to be able to choose important information, so it should be targeted when recording. Candidates should also judge the real questions and answers when answering questions, and don't be confused by some useless paragraphs. 4 copy. That is, the process of checking the modification. Check whether it meets the requirements of the topic, whether there are omissions or mistakes, and correct some spelling and grammar mistakes. In the IELTS test, there are certain requirements for the grammatical structure and spelling methods of the answers. ) Be careful not to make mistakes in understanding in this step. The real examination room will inevitably feel nervous. If you suddenly miss the information point in this process and find that the content of reading is inconsistent with the topic of reading, you must learn to give up reading the following topic directly to avoid causing greater losses. Finally, talk about how to prepare for the exam. 1 listening. Candidates should train their real listening level in a down-to-earth manner. We should use some authoritative IELTS textbooks for training. In this process, we must carefully study the content of the text, as well as the tone and intonation used by the questioner and some key turning words, such as how to never help you in fact. If you encounter obstacles in the process of listening and feel that you can't keep up with the reading speed or don't understand it, it is necessary to practice clauses or even dictation. Some students will go into the misunderstanding that many versions of textbooks are used for training when practicing. Anyway, the more you listen, the better. In fact, there are not many listening textbooks with real reference value in the world (which is different from other exams). The best IELTS textbook belongs to the Cambridge IELTS series. The content of this textbook, rather than extensive reading, is better to read carefully and repeatedly. Because this set of teaching materials can truly reflect the difficulty of the real exam, as well as the commonly used words and pronunciations. Some students like to do four parts of a listening test separately. This method will not have any effect when you don't quite understand it, but when you can basically hear the main meaning, you must conduct complete training and testing yourself, which will be of great help to the real exam. After at least a period of training, you can concentrate on answering questions effectively for a longer time. In addition, I suggest that students don't practice listening with walkman, but practice with cassette recorder, that is, don't wear headphones. Try to practice your ear sensitivity and perception of words in a complex environment. 2. Ability to read test questions. If you pay attention to training in the formal exam at ordinary times, you can make a height prediction when you give the question and try to find out all the clues given in the question. 3 word ability 1 spelling of words. Try to pay attention to this problem, don't lose points because of spelling mistakes in the exam, it's not worth it. 2 Pronunciation of words. Strengthen the training of auditory response, that is, you can immediately and accurately reflect the spelling, pronunciation and Chinese explanation of words after hearing them. 3 simple scene vocabulary such as names and places. London, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Canberra and Queensland.

It seems that the reading part of the IELTS test is very difficult. The article is full of a lot of data and many very professional terms. Briefly talk about the scope of the articles used in the exam. IELTS articles always focus on business, social science and basic science. After the reading test, there are three articles in one hour. The general questions are as follows. Match true and false questions (true and false questions) Fill in the blanks (multiple choice questions) Sentence completion (sentence completion) Graphic marking questions (short answer questions) Chart completion questions (chart/table completion) The principle of solving problems is as follows: 1 strength. 1 Sufficient vocabulary 2 Ability to read long sentences. This is inseparable from a solid grammatical foundation. Students are advised to extract more long sentences with complex grammatical structure for training. 3 can you grasp the main line of logical thinking in the article? This is closely related to thinking during practice. 2 problem-solving skills. Scanning+prefix location+problem solving The first step is to browse (scan) the article. Look for those numbers, percentages, fractions, time or currency symbols; Quotes, capitalized proper nouns, brackets and dashes; Italic, bold and underlined paragraphs. After that, scan the questions. Step 2: Sweep the questions and go back to the article without spending time reading the whole article. At this time, just find out the main content of each paragraph and the whole article quickly and grasp the theme structure and main meaning of the article. Grasp the topic sentence of each paragraph. Read the first sentence, the last sentence or the second sentence of each paragraph, and some words that express the turning point of mood. ............................................................................................................................................................ read the topic again and analyze it carefully. Find out the core words to return to the original text. When analyzing the topic, the key is the trunk of the topic, and it is necessary to judge which specific paragraph the specific topic should correspond to. After the analysis, I will quickly return to the original text for targeted reading as required. Candidates are advised to increase their reading time during normal training, because people will be nervous in the examination room and can't concentrate on the accurate examination. Only by increasing the usual training intensity can we calmly cope with the exam. The test paper requirements of IELTS are different from those of other exams. Candidates can sketch out any useful information on the test paper. Therefore, this habit should also be developed in the usual practice.

Next, let's talk about the matters that should be paid attention to in the composition exam. 1. Avoid using too complicated words. It is certainly a good thing to embellish the IELTS composition with a few beautiful words, but it is another matter if the skills are not enough. First of all, spelling mistakes are extremely easy to occur. What if the old marking officer can't keep up with your thoughts and can't read the misspelled words that make you take pains? Secondly, improper use: some words in Chinese-English dictionaries are not translated accurately, so it is difficult for you to master these difficult words with multiple meanings. Some words have been given new meanings in the long process of integration of language, but you just don't know it. With such a purpose, it is very likely that the donkey's lips are not right for the horse's mouth. So it's better to be cautious. Second, use less complicated sentence structures. Many candidates will take pains to prepare many sentence patterns, attributive clauses, adverbial clauses, noun clauses and inverted sentences before the exam. Just to show off your skills in the examination room. But the requirement of composition is to finish two compositions (one graphic composition and one argumentative essay) within one hour. This is still very nervous for most candidates. Candidates are advised to pay more attention to the structure of the article, the order and logic of their own views when writing. If the strength permits, they can try to make modest sentences and use some elegant and grammatical words and sentences appropriately. Third, do you want to copy the model essay? This question is what I want to say most, and it is also the hardest to say. As the old saying goes, "All articles in the world are copied". But it can't be as low-level as copying files. Even if you can copy it, you can't pass the exam. Why? Think about it, if you can get a good composition, others will, because everyone has similar channels. If these two articles meet in the examiner's hands, the consequences will be unimaginable. When I say "copy", I mean to learn the structure, logic and proper collocation of a good article, study it slowly by myself, learn from each other's strengths, and truly reach the author's realm, so that I can use it freely for 10 thousand times in the examination room. In addition, even if you study harder, you should vote for the right teacher. At present, IELTS textbooks or training courses are overwhelming and mixed. So keep your eyes open and choose carefully, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort. Now tell you, the examiner graded the 1 structure from several aspects. The whole article is divided into several paragraphs. The length of each paragraph. 3 starts with the middle ending. 2 Logic 1 Whether the beginning and end of each paragraph correspond, and the end should keep the beginning. Whether the sentence pattern of the first sentence at the beginning of each paragraph has changed, and whether it is related to the theme. The frame structure of the sentence should be correct. 3. Evaluate whether the sentence structure in your Chinese 1 article has changed, and whether you can properly use inverted sentences, rhetorical questions and rhetorical questions. Evaluate whether words have changed and the complexity of words, and measure whether synonyms can be used. So I hope everyone will work hard in these aspects and really improve their writing level.

Finally, I will tell you how to prepare for the oral exam.

The IELTS speaking test time is 1 1- 14 minutes, which is divided into three parts. The first part is generally called interview, and the examiner mainly asks some basic questions about the personal situation of the candidates in 4-5 minutes. At present, the common topics are name, work or study, family status, friends, hometown, climate, transportation, housing, diet, clothing, travel habits, daily hobbies and so on. This part of the examiner generally chooses 1-3 questions from the above questions and asks 6-9 questions. The second part is an individual long talk, and the time is also 4-5 minutes. Examiners ask candidates to draw cards with questions and tips, and then candidates have one minute to prepare, and they can make a simple outline with paper and pen. 1 minute later, the examiner prompts that the time is up, and the candidate list begins to state the selected topic for 1-2 minutes. After that, the examiner will ask 1-2 related questions. Then enter the third part-dialogue and discussion. The examiner asks questions around the topics selected by the candidates in the second part and discusses them with the candidates for 4-5 minutes. So how to prepare for the oral exam? Work hard on the content of the exam, that is to say, accumulate all kinds of vocabulary mentioned above. There are many ways to accumulate, such as using a dictionary or reading English newspapers ... but I recommend the latter here. Because reading English newspapers can not only improve your reading ability but also increase your vocabulary. The most important thing is to have a new understanding and understanding of some new things and problems through this process. The ability to repeat and blurt out. Usually you can dictate some sentences or articles, try to change the words and phrases in the text and express them in your own language. You can also practice with some original classic DVD movies, and take training yourself to express your thoughts and opinions in English as your learning goal. But never recite the model essay. Because the oral exam is very flexible, be careful to lift a rock and hit yourself in the foot. The oral examiner will also test whether you have a tendency to recite. Finally, talk about matters needing attention in the examination room. 1 Calm down and relax. Pay attention to some polite expressions. . You should smile at the examiner and look at the examiner with sincere and confident eyes. If you encounter a question that is difficult for you to answer, don't answer it directly. For example, you can say: This is a question. I never thought about it. Sorry, give me some time to think. Be careful not to say I don't know, and try your best to pay attention to the problem. Talk to the examiner sincerely as a friend, relax your emotions, and strive to create a good communication atmosphere. Regarding the content of the answer, I suggest that all candidates can give full play to their initiative and make the answer diversified and personalized. Don't be stereotyped and lifeless. If you don't grasp this aspect well, the score will definitely not go up.