hi everybody welcome to inkvid.com i'm
adam in today's video i want to give you
four tips for ielts or toefl success it
doesn't matter which test you're doing
all of these tips
will help you get the score you need and
get the dreams you're chasing right i'm
also going to tell you about my other
channel which is righttotop.com
and i'll explain to you how this can
help you in your preparation for
these particular tests
but first we're going to start with a
couple of
general strategies
number one
start early okay a lot of people who
need to take these tests
leave it to the last minute to start
preparing these are very difficult
english tests they're english
proficiency exams what they're testing
is your ability to join an academic
classroom
and understand what the professor is
saying be able to contribute to
discussions be able to do your homework
in a timely fashion and basically
succeed in an academic environment if
you're taking these tests for
immigration purposes they also want to
make sure that you have enough english
to move to an english-speaking country
and succeed so these are very difficult
tests give yourself enough time
a very
general rule of thumb for each band or
for example in ielts for each band you
want to go up or for every five points
on toefl or every three points on toefl
give yourself a month
of studying
you want to go up to a band seven or
band eight make sure you're giving
yourself three four five months to
prepare for this test
i know a lot of people
how they prepare is by just taking the
test many times again and again it's an
expensive test
instead of taking the test 10 times
study hard take it once maybe twice and
pass and move on
make sure when you're starting
build your vocab that's the most
important thing you need to do vocab
vocab vocab
also for those of you who are not used
to writing essays
start building an idea bank an idea bank
is a collection of ideas and topics
for the essays so when you get a
question you're ready to answer anything
you have ideas and i'll tell you more
about the idea bank in a moment
and read read a lot a lot a lot
the main reason you're going to do that
is one to build vocabulary two to get
more ideas that you can use in your
essays but most importantly build your
speed you have an hour to for example on
the ielts you have an hour an hour
to answer to read three passages and
answer 40 questions you need to make
good use of that time and i'll talk
about that in a moment again
second
even if you don't have much time the
basic thing you should do is get to know
the test
don't go into the test center
on the day you're having your test and
find out what's going on and try to
figure out how the test is set up
make sure you take at least three full
practice tests and when i say take a
test i don't mean just you know look at
it one day a little bit next day a
little bit
sit down for two hours and 40 minutes
and do
the listening reading and writing
sections in one shot
turn off your phone
don't put it on silent next to you turn
it off put it in another room make sure
that nobody bothers you make sure the
door is closed nobody comes in you don't
go out for two hours and 40 minutes
because that's what the situation will
be on test day no phones
no leaving to go to the washroom no
breaks no interruptions
full concentration do that
also get to know the directions on the
test study all the directions in the
listening reading and writing sections
and the speaking section
this way on the test
when you're doing the official test you
don't have to spend much time
looking at the
instructions or listening to the
instructions you know what's coming you
can take that time
for example in the listening you can
take the instruction time to look ahead
and prepare
during the reading you just need to know
a few things like how many words can you
use to answer with or what are they
looking for yes no true false etc but
basically you don't want to waste time
reading directions
use that time for the test
and
again talking about the reading section
create a strategy there are different
ways to approach the reading section i
actually have a video about this about
three different strategies try different
ways to approach the reading section
find one way
that you think works the best for you
and keep practicing that
strategy until it becomes second nature
don't try to go into the reading
test
without ever having uh practiced it
because it can be very very confusing
and you need to manage your time and try
to answer all the questions if you can
okay so these are some more technical
things let's look at two more tips
okay so the next tip is to start with
the writing section now the reason i say
this is because the writing
is the hardest skill to master and this
is for 99 of test takers
a lot of people and i've heard this many
many times
they get eight listening they get 7.5
reading they get 6.5 or 7 speaking and
then 5 and a half writing
or
all kinds of different combinations but
their writing score always brings their
the overall score below what they need
this is a true for ielts it's true for
toefl it's true for many of the other
english tests
writing takes time to improve
give yourself enough time start writing
all the time every day
write a little bit more it's the hardest
section and the reason it's hard is
because if you don't get feedback
you're going to just write the same
things you're going to make the same
mistakes again and again
make sure that you find out what your
weakness is
and fix it or what your weaknesses are
and fix them right ideally get somebody
to read your essays and give you
feedback that's very important
remember before i mention the idea bank
if you have a hard time coming up with
ideas because remember
these tests their writing section is not
just english it's not just vocabulary
and grammar your ideas your arguments
your examples are very very important to
the score you can have perfect grammar
and perfect vocab
but if you don't have good convincing
ideas you're still going to get a bad
score so work on that
now one of the things you can do to work
on the idea bank or if you want to find
out more about what an idea bank is
visit
writetotop.com that's my website this is
my i also have a youtube channel that's
also from right to top and what i do
here in this channel is focus only
on the writing skills
of course i also do vocabulary building
i do grammar development but all of this
is focused towards writing and
especially writing for these two tests
the ielts and the toefl so i want to
help you pass your test i'm going to
help you improve your writing and as you
improve your writing
you will also
naturally improve your reading so they
go kind of hand in hand so if you come
to my website you will see videos and
they're going they're going to be course
based videos a little mini courses
they're going to be sample essays and
sample letters for the general test and
sample summaries etc
i help you build vocabulary high-end
vocabulary more academic vocabulary
grammar more complex grammar not just
basic grammar and basically i teach you
how to write how to have a topic
sentence how to elaborate how to
include
good arguments and examples how to close
things off how to organize an essay all
of the things you need to write better
now even if you're not taking one of
these tests but you do need to write
writing is writing whether you're
writing for a test or you're writing for
business or you're writing to a friend
it's all based on the same principles so
if you need to learn how to write better
i hope hopefully i can help you on my
site now if you need even more help i
also have an ebook store
so i create my own ebooks that are very
focused and targeted towards the skills
you need so you don't need to get a
little bit of everything
focus on the things you need i have an
idea bank book i have a self-assessment
book to help you if you don't have
somebody to read your essays i have some
collocations i have all kinds of
different books go check it out if they
help
great
i'm sure they will help let's put it
this way
so
that's all my tips there four tips i
wish all of you the best of luck on your
test and remember it's not all luck it's
all work so make sure you put in the
work for that that's it for this video
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