What should I pay attention to when taking IELTS in Norway?

What should I pay attention to when taking IELTS in Norway? Many candidates are confused about taking IELTS in Norway. IELTS is nothing for those who have good English scores, but the rules in different regions are different. The following are the matters needing attention in taking IELTS in Norway.

personal information

The latest published scores: total score 8, speaking 7, writing 8, listening 8.5, reading 8.5.

The examination place is Norway (the official language of Norway is Norwegian). The landlord is a junior and has been an exchange student in Norway for half a year. At the end of the exchange period, he took the IELTS test.

I took an IELTS test in my sophomore year. At that time, I got 7 points in the exam and 6 points in oral writing. This year, my grades have improved very well.

Experience sharing

Foreign exam or domestic exam?

The landlord struggled for a while whether to take IELTS in China or not, and finally took IELTS in Norway. As far as the landlord's personal experience is concerned, Norway and China are looser than the scores. The landlord thought that his writing should be at the level of 7: 00 to 7: 05, but Norway got 8, which was very surprising. Surprisingly, in view of frequent spot checks in Southeast Asia due to the influx of China candidates, the European and American exams may be a good idea. Of course, if you take the exam alone, the difficulty of visa and the cost of air tickets and accommodation are also higher than those in Southeast Asia. Level, I suggest you consider elegance when you stay abroad for business or personal reasons.

Can you improve your English as an exchange student in a small language country? The landlord thinks it depends. In countries like Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, people's overall English level is very good, and if they go to big cities, they will have a higher degree of internationalization. From running school formalities to chatting with roommates, everything is done in English, and the accumulated progress in English is still obvious. The landlord has another experience, that is, because I am no longer influenced by the wall, and Google's search ability is objectively better than Baidu's, I have become more accustomed to searching English websites after going out for half a year, and I have changed from visiting Zhihu to visiting Quora at ordinary times. Visiting these will greatly improve writing and reading.

Learning a small language for the first time really has a negative impact on English. I mean, if both languages are mastered, they will certainly benefit from each other, but it is easy for beginners to interfere and influence each other. If you want to learn a small language as an exchange student, you have to carefully arrange the progress of learning a small language and preparing for IELTS.

The landlord has never learned Norwegian, but he has learned a little German. When he spoke English in Norway, he was actually asked if he was German. During the period when his accent became strange and he was most addicted to German musicals, he practiced speaking IELTS, and German words popped out of his mouth, making him speechless.

However, when traveling, it is obvious that some cities in some countries, such as Germany and some places in France, are not suitable for practicing English. They don't like speaking English If you ask for directions in English, you will always answer in German/French, which is a great obstacle to the improvement of your English ability.

Auditory experience correlation

When the landlord took the IELTS test for the first time, the listening comprehension was 8: 5, and it was all listening. The experience of high score is a combination of intensive listening and extensive listening, which is as useless as the wind blowing through the ears. There are many forms of intensive listening, the most common one is dictation or oral retelling after listening once, and then listening again to see what is missing.

I think IELTS listening has several characteristics. One is that you can't speak. Basically, the vocabulary of CET-4 and CET-6 is enough, and there are almost no professional words or difficult words. The other is that there is no slang at all and it is very formal English. Combining the first and second points, I think everyone should try to get high marks in listening. To tell the truth, it is absolutely not a loss to try to go abroad here. There is nothing I can't understand in my listening test. However, in foreign life and class, there are still things you can't understand from time to time, and you don't work hard enough. Third, information is not intensive. Generally, after an answer appears, you will say the next answer at least once or twice, and there is almost no time to write the answer, so the degree of concentration can be targeted. If you are nervous, you should relax.

In addition, if you find any questions difficult (such as Sec4 multiple-choice questions), you can set aside some time in sec 1 and jump over to look at those questions first. Anyway, sec 1 is less difficult and less stressful.

Oral experience correlation

The landlord's spoken English is not very good, because introversion has never been an eloquent type. We introverts can speak English even if we can't speak Chinese clearly. We introverts have lost everything in the oral exam, but there are remedies.

You don't need to be talkative, but you should be able to communicate with others and communicate smoothly, instead of jumping out of a word.

The landlord's experience is that fluency is far more important than vocabulary richness in IELTS speaking test. The landlord only used two or three non-CET-4 and CET-6 words this time, with 7 points. I know a little brother who took the IELTS test in Australia, and the whole process was very smooth, with a score of 7. Therefore, the most important thing in peacetime training is to say yes. Even if you find something wrong, you should have the ability to bite the bullet and go on.

Regarding the content selection, the landlord concluded that the type can't be wrong. For example, topic is a movie, and you can't talk about comics, but you can be a little sloppy within the scope of topic, and you don't have to follow the outline from beginning to end, just like normal chat. For example, ask your favorite holiday destination and say that many people like this place as much as I do. This is also normal content. It's easy to say nothing completely according to the outline.

The most noteworthy thing in grammar is tense. Tense is very important, and it is easy to be ignored by native Chinese speakers.

Reading and writing experience

A great feature of IELTS listening and reading is that 95% of them are factual questions, which means that there must be a unique answer in the original text. If you think the answer to this question is not unique, then there is a 95% chance that you made a mistake.

The remaining 5% possibility is that there are ambiguous elements, such as the eternal pain in the landlord's heart, the main topic.

Try to do the questions according to the idea of facts, not by investigation. After each problem is determined, you can do the next one. It can be completed within the examination time. Don't worry, leave time for two brushes.

If so, it is very helpful to write an English paper abroad and change it into an English paper. The only thing the landlord wants to say is that he wants to get high marks in the exam, and never recite the template. There is an extremely gorgeous sentence in the template recited by the landlord in the first exam, with 6 points. He didn't regard the second exam as a text, but paid a little attention to the change of the next sentence and wrote it down step by step. A slightly higher score will be 8. Small compositions can recite some common phrases, and big compositions can recite whole sentences, which is really easy to get low marks.

Can you learn a language well?

Compared with many people around me, my language is really lacking in talent. Others practice English more and speak casually. I practice to get rid of grammatical confusion and remember fancy mistakes.

But I think there are several points.

First, it's just an exam. Exams are easier than actual combat, so don't give up treatment.

A second language really needs talent, but its threshold is actually very low. To a large extent, it is still a hard work and a harvest. Unlike some difficult mathematics, the threshold of language is still much lower. In listening, I used to listen for two hours every day for more than half a year, and then I relaxed until 8: 5.

Third native land

The level of speakers, we adults learning foreign languages really can't catch up, but English is an international language, the purpose is to communicate, not to show off skills. You don't need perfect spoken English to speak or perfect writing to write. Practice for a while and you will find it at least more perfect than before.