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YNNG and TFNG Made Easy

Today’s topic is a thorny one and one which many students flag up as being an issue. Sometimes a little bit of thinking needs to go into these questions to weigh up the merits of each but generally if you have the right approach you can get them all correct.

The Facts you should know about IELTS Reading

Along with IELTS Writing, IELTS Reading is the area of the IELTS exam that I find most people find challenging. The amount of text to read, the number of questions and the short amount of time to do it all conspire to create something which most students feel is impossible and create panic in many.

Over-Confident Yet Under Prepared – IELTS Case Study

This IELTS student was a doctor. Salim was from Syria. He had been living in the UK for some time and was very fluent in spoken English. He had spent some time at school in the UK so his English skills were quite polished. When I first met Salim he was about to take the […]

Reading and Writing Accelerator

I know how hard getting the score that you need in the IELTS can be. Sometimes it can feel like trudging through the freezing snow somewhere and going uphill both ways, there and back! Studying for it is hard, you wade through all of those practice tests and read essay after practice essay. You spend […]

Take Your First Step to Passing the IELTS: IELTS Step by Step Learning Programme

There is so much information out there about taking the IELTS test and developing your language skills. An overwhelming amount of information. It can take months or even years to go through it all and to figure out what works for you! What if there was a way that you could get focused training to […]

Get Help With Your IELTS Reading And Writing Skills!

You may think you have what it takes to successfully pass your IELTS exam without any extra help. But, the Reading and Writing sections of the test tend to be the two areas people find the most challenging, which is why I’ve created a course that focuses JUST on this.

Every Word Counts in IELTS Reading

When I start working with IELTS students on their IELTS reading I often find that they spend a lot of time on the passages and only read through the questions quickly before rushing off to find the answers. This strategy is the wrong way around. Much of the content of the reading passages is irrelevant […]

IELTS Reading – It’s all about Key Words?

Students often ask me how to improve their reading and although there are several techniques that I teach and help students to perfect, the one thing that always makes a difference is the use of Keywords. Key words help you to locate the place in the text where the answer lies AND to pick out […]

Dealing with the IELTS Reading Test

Here is a strategy for the IELTS Reading Test. This works and is the best way to do the test quickly and accurately. It does, however, need lots of practice to get it going well and you really do need to practice just knowing about it is not enough to change your score. My reading […]

5 tips to help you pass your IELTS Reading test

IELTS Reading can often be an area that poses great challenges for students. On the one hand there are a lot of questions to complete and the texts themselves can be quite difficult and on the other there is a time constraint which can at best add some stress to the exam and at worst, […]

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