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Why is IELTS so important?

If you’re in a situation where you’re thinking maybe you’re going to abandon IELTS, or it’s becoming too difficult or you’re losing focus, then you should read this post because I want to try and remind you why you thought about doing the IELTS in the first place.So why is IELTS important?It isn’t really, it’s […]

IELTS Writing – The Final Hurdle – 7 Tips to Succeed

Are you getting great scores in your listening and your reading, but finding that the writing and perhaps also the speaking is lagging behind? If this describes you then read on – this will help you transform your situation How you can make sure that your IELTS writing reaches a high band? That’s the question. I’ve been an […]

How to Improve Your Vocabulary

If vocabulary for your IELTS is something that you are concerned about or want to know more about, then you should read this post. I see lots of comments and receive lots of questions about how to improve vocabulary. I’m not surprised, English vocabulary is quite a huge thing. There are over 171,000 words, and the Oxford […]

Busting IELTS Reading Myths

Things I call IELTS Reading Myths are things you might be doing in your IELTS reading that are not helping you boost your IELTS reading score. In fact, they can hinder you from getting a good score. If your scores in reading are not reaching your target and you don’t know why, then maybe you are doing some […]

IELTS Reading – How to manage your time

The one thing that a lot of people post about or ask questions about when it comes to IELTS Reading is the timing. IELTS Students often tell me they have a problem with the timing. However, in my experience, their problem is rarely timing. This is because if you can do the reading well and […]

How to Fail the IELTS Exam

How To Fail the IELTS exam is a strange title for an article from an IELTS teacher, but sadly, there are lots of students who go into the exam very unprepared and it looks like that’s exactly what they are trying to do. In this article, I want to go through the six ways that will […]

Have a Proper Plan for your IELTS

I work with IELTS students all the time, so I speak to IELTS students a lot and I’m often very surprised that many don’t have a plan or a system in place to prepare for their IELTS exam. In this post I want to talk about planning your IELTS study. Now, a lot of students don’t […]

Are you getting the best support for your IELTS?

I’ve been looking recently at some different approaches that I’ve seen students take to their IELTS preparation. This was triggered originally, by a conversation that I had with a student on Monday who was talking about several courses that he taken in IELTS with different IELTS teachers and that he felt he hadn’t really got […]

Do this 1 thing and it will guarantee your IELTS score

What exactly is it that you can do in order to make sure that your IELTS result is inevitable?Yesterday I was working with one of my students, a new student in fact, on his writing. He’s getting fantastic results in listening and reading, but the two areas that are suffering are writing and speaking. Maybe […]

3 Important Things to Know about IELTS Writing

I want to tell you about three things that you must do in your IELTS writing, whether you’re doing academic or general training, you must do the same three things in order to prepare well and be successful in the writing part of your exam. So, if you are struggling with your writing or finding the […]