IELTS listening tips
IELTS listening is the same for academic and general training students. You have 30 minutes and 40 questions which are split into 4 sections and your questions are generally harder as you progress. Some student’s face many difficulties in their IELTS test because of the multi-functioning that is to be performed during the listening test so today we have some IELTS listening tips that will help you to get good scores in this module.
1. You need to listen to the recording while you are reading your questions. You need to be multitasking in your listening time. Most of the students face difficulty to perform both the tasks. For this, you need to try redirecting the time from other activities and reading questions which are coming next. If you take several practice test you know that the test begins with instructions which are read pretty slowly and that are the same every time. So you need to spend this time on reading questions.
2. As you know they discuss each option only once if you hear that incorrectly you should know that they will not come back to this option. If your answer is correct than don’t waste time to check to that again and move to the next one.
3. Identify the keywords in the questions to find the correct answer. The keywords help you to determine what the question is about. Moreover, they will discuss all the options if you have multiple choice questions. They give the little detail about all the options and it depends upon you how you understand them.
4. Don’t worry if you don’t understand the all words. Because they just do their conversation in the listening but you should focus only on the particular question. So, listen to the audio and find your answer according to the keywords.
5. In case you don’t understand the answer than don’t leave the blank. Try to do your guess and fill the vacant space with some other word as there is no negative marking in IELTS and if you are lucky than Because sometimes you guess may be right or examiner check your answer by mistake.
6. Make sure your all spelling will be correct. If you face difficulty to write the spellings than do practice before your exam. When you do any spelling mistakes in your exam the examiner don’t give you any scores of incorrect spellings. So always check your spelling after transferring your answers to an answer sheet.
7. Try to transfer your answers in capital letters because it helps the examiner to understand easily.
8. Read your instructions carefully. Sometime there will be an instruction of no more than one word but some students don’t read about it and they write the two or three words. In this case, your answer will be wrong. So, always follow the instructions.
9. Your first module is listening when you going for your final exam. So, some student’s feel nervous when the test begins. And they don’t able to concentrate on their module. As a result they will skip their lots of answers. Make sure you are fully confident when you go for your exam. And you must focus on your first module.
10. Always use pencil to transfer your answers because with pencil your writing will be more neat and clear.
Hope the above said tips will help you in scoring your desired band scores in IELTS Listening.
Thank you 🙂
