Hi there! It's Asiya. How many words do you know in English? And how many words do
you need to know in order to pass the IELTS exam?
That's something I've searched recently and I think you should know about it too.
I'll tell you how to quickly determine at what level you are at the moment and
what words you need to learn in order to elevate your score as quickly as
possible. I've also prepared a PDF list of those words. Ok, let's get started!
how many words do you need to know by analyzing several different resources
I was able to come up with the chart which links have any size of your
vocabulary with the IELTS score let me show it okay the bottom level is an
advice someone who's just starting to learn English and knows about 500 words
intermediate 1000 words that's not very interesting the next level is advanced
low would be one that's when you know 2,000 words and you would be able to
understand 90% of ordinary texts but you would only get up to 5.5 in IELTS so
it's still a bit low for most needs the next level is more interesting advanced
mid or b2 you must have heard about it that's when your IELTS score is between
five point five and seven and you would be expected to learn 4000 words
but then you can understand 95% of most ordinary texts and actually this level
is sufficient to study at most universities abroad of course if you
want to study at Oxford or Cambridge or another top university or you're looking
to immigrate to Australia or Canada and get the maximum points then you need to
reach the next level code c1 advanced high that's when your IELTS score is
between seven and eight and you need to learn 8,000 words in this case you'll be
able to understand 97% of most texts not just ordinary texts but more specialized
ones as well like in hires especially IELTS academic yes and there is only one
level higher than this it's called superior c2 and that's when
you need to know up to sixteen thousand words then you be able to get a Nile
score up to it 9 as you can see the number of words you
need to learn in order to reach each level doubles it means it takes more and
more time to reach each next level how many words do you know I had no idea do
you I think it may be pretty hard to say but
there is a good test if you go to my dot by capillary size comm you can take a
simple test it's free you see a number of words and definitions and you need to
choose the correct definition for each word you can take this test in English
or in your own language there are 140 words in toto and it took me around 10
minutes and then you will see your result there is out you see all the
screen is mine and your actual vocabulary may be a bit higher or lower
but it's a good indicator so once you know how many words you know what should
you do next the first thing you should do is move
words from your passive vocabulary into your active vocabulary or what am I
talking about well your active vocabulary is words you
know and actively use when you speak when your right when you think so these
are words we know really well and passive vocabulary is words you would
recognize but you wouldn't use them yourself so we recognize words when we
hear them or when we see them we read them but we wouldn't use them in
speaking or writing and actually our passive vocabulary several times larger
than our active vocabulary and that's one of the reasons why most people get
highest scores in IELTS listening and reading than in speaking and writing it
may not be true for you but it's true for most people on earth
courage IELTS writing if the lowest out of four scores and if you move more
words from your passive vocabulary to active vocabulary your score will
improve too so how can you do that when you learn a new word it goes into a
passive vocabulary but then once you encounter it several times and you
really get a view of how to use this word it moves into an active vocabulary
so you should really try to immerse yourself into an English speaking
environment luckily today you don't need to travel to an english-speaking country
you're already watching YouTube in English you can watch movies and news in
English you can read books in English or listen to books actually I listen to
most of my books because it's so easy to do on the go and I managed to read two
books a month without dedicating any special time to this and if you're not a
subscriber on audible then you get the first book for free I'm gonna leave you
a link in the video description box below of course you also need to write
and speak in English it's really really important to pull those words out of
your memory and use them what words should you learn if you see that your
vocabulary size is insufficient to get the score you desire in IELTS you have
to learn new words there is no way around it but it's important to choose
strategically which was you learn in order to get the maximum benefit so
there are three things you should know number one academic word list it doesn't
matter whether you take IELTS academic or general training this exam uses a lot
of academic words and if you learn those your score will improve they are
particularly important for your reading and writing scores luckily a scientist
from New Zealand put together the list most commonly used academic words and if
you have a look at that list you will see how often those words are used in
Isles so I've prepared for you the PDF list of academic words and if you learn
it it will really help you to improve your score this list is split into
several sections and words in Section 1 and most frequently used words in
section 2 are slightly less frequently used and so on I'm gonna leave the link
in the video description box below but this list will give you the highest
benefit per word learned you should start learning topic-specific vocabulary
about environment technology education social media and all the topics which
are so often used in IELTS I actually made a video with ideas and vocabulary
about environment I'm gonna link it here but you should also read well-written
articles from BBC Guardian Financial Times The Economist learn new words and
probably those articles will seem complex at first but if you keep reading
them you get used to this complexity and it will help you with your reading score
too number 3 you should check if you know most common
words the Oxford Dictionary publishes to you word lists Oxford 3000 and Oxford
5000 which contain most commonly used words in English you shouldn't get
scared because you already know most of those words but you can go through those
lists and select words you don't know and learn them in this way you'll be
able to close the gaps and approach the exam more confidently the links to both
lists I have the PDF file of prepared for you you can download it right now
and once you get the result of your vocabulary size please leave me a
comment I really to know what results you get thank you
so much for watching me today good luck with your preparation and your exam bye